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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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Coventry
England
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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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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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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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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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 true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
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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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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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