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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
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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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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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit we must sleep and therefore we must dream.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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From now on - specialize never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.
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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
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