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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
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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 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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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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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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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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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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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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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.
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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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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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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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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems
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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
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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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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
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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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