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Cyril Connolly Quotes
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. - 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
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. - 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
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? - Cyril Connolly Quotes
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. - 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
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. - 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
It is only in the country that we can get to know a fellow-being or a book. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. - 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
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
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. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
No taste is so acquired as that for someone elses quality of mind. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. - 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 artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. - Cyril Connolly Quotes
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