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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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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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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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