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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
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Coventry
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit we must sleep and therefore we must dream.
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We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
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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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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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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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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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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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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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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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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
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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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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.
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