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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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Coventry
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
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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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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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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 past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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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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When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
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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.
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In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems
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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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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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