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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
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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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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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