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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
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Sinister
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Economic
Men
Stonehenge
Rockefeller

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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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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.
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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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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.
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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