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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Literary Critic
Novelist
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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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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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
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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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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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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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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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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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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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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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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 American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.
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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 dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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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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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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