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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.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Hatred
Hate
Fear
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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
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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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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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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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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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There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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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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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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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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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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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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