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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.

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
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Imagination
Science
Artist
Today
Myth

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