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A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Literary Critic
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Emotion
Woman
Desire
Women
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Infidelity
Cheating
Revenge
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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 writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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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 secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
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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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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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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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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
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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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The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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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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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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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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We fear something before we hate.
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