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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
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
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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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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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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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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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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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
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No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
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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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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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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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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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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?
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