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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
Life
Secretes
Nostalgia
Artist
Around

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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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