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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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That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
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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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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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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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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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We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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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 man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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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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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
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