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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.
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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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Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
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There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit we must sleep and therefore we must dream.
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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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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We fear something before we hate.
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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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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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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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.
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