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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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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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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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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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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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Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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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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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
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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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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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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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