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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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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UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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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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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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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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Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.
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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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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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How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?
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