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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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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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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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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
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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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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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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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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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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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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
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In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
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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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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.
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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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