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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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We fear something before we hate.
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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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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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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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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
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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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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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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 more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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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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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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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
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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 reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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