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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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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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There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit we must sleep and therefore we must dream.
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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 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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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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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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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 man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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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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We fear something before we hate.
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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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In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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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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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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