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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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English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid one attractive, one vulgar one noble, one ape-like one serious and sincere, one undignified and false one far-sighted, one short EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.
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If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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We create the world in which we live if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.
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In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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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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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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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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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
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Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
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The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.
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Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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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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