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When in doubt, choose greatness.

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
Greatness
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Doubt

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The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.
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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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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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There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
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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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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
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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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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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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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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
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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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