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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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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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A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
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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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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.
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The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.
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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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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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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.
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English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid one attractive, one vulgar one noble, one ape-like one serious and sincere, one undignified and false one far-sighted, one short EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.
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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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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
Cyril Connolly
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.
Cyril Connolly
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
Cyril Connolly
The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.
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