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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
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Literary Critic
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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More quotes by Cyril Connolly
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.
Cyril Connolly
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
Cyril Connolly
Sheep with a nasty side.
Cyril Connolly
Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
Cyril Connolly
It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
Cyril Connolly
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Cyril Connolly
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.
Cyril Connolly
When in doubt, choose greatness.
Cyril Connolly
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
Cyril Connolly
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
Cyril Connolly
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly
That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
Cyril Connolly
There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
Cyril Connolly
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
Cyril Connolly
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
Cyril Connolly
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Cyril Connolly
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.
Cyril Connolly
When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
Cyril Connolly
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.
Cyril Connolly
