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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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
Novelist
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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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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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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Sheep with a nasty side.
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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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