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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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Woman
Desire
Women
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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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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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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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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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
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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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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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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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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
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Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems
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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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