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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Artist
Around
Life
Secretes
Nostalgia

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Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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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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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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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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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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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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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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