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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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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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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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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
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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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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.
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Sheep with a nasty side.
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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We create the world in which we live if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.
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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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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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