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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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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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Sheep with a nasty side.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
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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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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
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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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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
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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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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
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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.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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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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Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
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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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