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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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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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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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The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.
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English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid one attractive, one vulgar one noble, one ape-like one serious and sincere, one undignified and false one far-sighted, one short EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.
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When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
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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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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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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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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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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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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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How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?
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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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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