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The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.
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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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
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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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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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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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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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From now on - specialize never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.
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Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
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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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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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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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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities it is all they have to insure their places in the world.
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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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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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