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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.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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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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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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