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Cyril Connolly Quotes
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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 artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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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.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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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.
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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.
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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
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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.
- Nature
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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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