“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.”
Cyril Connolly
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“Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.”
Cyril Connolly
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“When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years’ life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?”
Cyril Connolly
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conscience
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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.”
Cyril Connolly
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Youth [is] a period of missed opportunities.”
Cyril Connolly
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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“In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other’s affairs, who “come out” together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.”
Cyril Connolly
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“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”
Cyril Connolly
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear’s dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and our plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; the child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.”
Cyril Connolly
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“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.”
Cyril Connolly
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“Youth is a period of missed opportunities.”
Cyril Connolly
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“The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.”
Cyril Connolly
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“Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.”
Cyril Connolly
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Vulgarity
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“Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.”
Cyril Connolly
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“No taste is so acquired as that for someone else’s quality of mind.”
Cyril Connolly
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.”
Cyril Connolly
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Talent
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“There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.”
Cyril Connolly
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.”
Cyril Connolly
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Solitude
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“The person who is master of their passions is reason’s slave.”
Cyril Connolly
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reason
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“We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.”
Cyril Connolly
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“The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.”
Cyril Connolly
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
