English - Journalist | September 10, 1903 - November 26, 1974
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Cyril Connolly
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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
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No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
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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.
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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
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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.
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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