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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.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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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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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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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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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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From now on - specialize never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
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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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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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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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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
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