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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Religion
Together
Work
Would
Sundown
Believers
Believer
Drink
Stop

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