English - Journalist | September 10, 1903 - November 26, 1974
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Cyril Connolly
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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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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
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Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
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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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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.
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It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
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