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That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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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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The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
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Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
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The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.
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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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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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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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We fear something before we hate.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
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