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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
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Write
Writing
Scatter
Shades
Purple
Shade
Prose
Evening
Dark

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