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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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