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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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Coventry
England
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
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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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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit we must sleep and therefore we must dream.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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Sheep with a nasty side.
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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.
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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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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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We fear something before we hate.
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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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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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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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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
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