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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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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
Cyril Connolly
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Cyril Connolly
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
Cyril Connolly
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
Cyril Connolly
When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
Cyril Connolly
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
Cyril Connolly
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
Cyril Connolly
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connolly
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
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.
Cyril Connolly
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
Cyril Connolly
The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
Cyril Connolly
Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
Cyril Connolly
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.
Cyril Connolly
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.
Cyril Connolly
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.
Cyril Connolly
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Cyril Connolly
Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
Cyril Connolly
