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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Literary Critic
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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Sheep with a nasty side.
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A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
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We fear something before we hate.
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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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Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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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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English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid one attractive, one vulgar one noble, one ape-like one serious and sincere, one undignified and false one far-sighted, one short EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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