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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Periods
Youth
Opportunity
Missed
Opportunities
Period

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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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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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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
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If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.
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Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
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In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.
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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
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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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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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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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Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
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The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.
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That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
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