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Cyril Connolly Quotes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
- Life
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
- Day
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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.
- Masterpiece
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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
- Happy
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We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
- Ignorance
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
- Only
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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
- Farther
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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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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
- May
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
- Only
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
- Opportunities
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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
- Others
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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
- Hate
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Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
- More
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
- Person
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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
- Golden
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