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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
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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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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.
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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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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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