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Cyril Connolly Quotes
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An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
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 (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
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 (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
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 (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
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 (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom (Cyril Connolly Quotes)