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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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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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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.
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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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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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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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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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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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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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We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.
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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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