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How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

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
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Many
Writing
Renoir

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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
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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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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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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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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.
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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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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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From now on - specialize never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.
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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
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No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
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