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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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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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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
Cyril Connolly
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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
Cyril Connolly
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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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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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
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We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.
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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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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
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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
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.
Cyril Connolly
The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
Cyril Connolly
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
Cyril Connolly
