English - Journalist | September 10, 1903 - November 26, 1974
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
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
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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.
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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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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.
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
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