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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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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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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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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
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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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