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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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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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Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities it is all they have to insure their places in the world.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
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Sheep with a nasty side.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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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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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
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