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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Literary Critic
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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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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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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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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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 cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
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