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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Vulgarity
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Vulgar
Charm
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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
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