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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
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Coventry
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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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Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
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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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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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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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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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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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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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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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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
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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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