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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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Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.
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Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
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Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
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That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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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.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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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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Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
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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 goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
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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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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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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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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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