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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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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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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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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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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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In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.
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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
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The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.
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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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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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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
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