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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
Stonehenge
Rockefeller
Sinister
Center
Economic
Men

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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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