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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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We create the world in which we live if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.
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Sheep with a nasty side.
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid one attractive, one vulgar one noble, one ape-like one serious and sincere, one undignified and false one far-sighted, one short EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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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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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems
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Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
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Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities it is all they have to insure their places in the world.
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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