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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
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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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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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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
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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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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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How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
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We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.
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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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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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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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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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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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