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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
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We create the world in which we live if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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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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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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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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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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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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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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