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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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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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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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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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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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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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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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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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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.
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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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We fear something before we hate.
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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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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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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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