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Cyril Connolly Quotes
«The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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«It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
«We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
«The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.»
«Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.»
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«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.»
«There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.»
«As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers»