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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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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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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
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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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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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