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Cyril Connolly
(English Journalist)

Date of Birth:: September 10, 1903
Date of Death:: November 26, 1974
Nationality:: English
Quote count:: 87
Times favorited:: 46

Cyril Vernon Connolly was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer.

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“Youth is a period of missed opportunities.”

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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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“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once”

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“It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator”

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“When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?”

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“Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.”

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“The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.”

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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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“The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals”

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“I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike”

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