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Cyril Connolly Quotes
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The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second rate thoughts, and to second rate friends (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
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 (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
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 (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow more loyal to situations and to types (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up - execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Peace... Is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Imagination = nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshots of reality (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this the uncivilized have not forgiven them (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
The hunt for young authors who, while maintaining a prestige value (with a role for Ingrid Bergman), may yet somehow win the coveted jack - pot, is feverish and incessant (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph - green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy (Cyril Connolly Quotes)