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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

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
Death
Permanent
Two
Record
Everything
Conversation
People
Marriage
Records
Break
Talk
Everyone
Breaks

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