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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.
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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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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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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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
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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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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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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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