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Cyril Connolly Quotes

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do Picture Quote #1

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types Picture Quote #1

There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love Picture Quote #1

Friendships that last are those wherein each friend respects the other’s dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from them Picture Quote #1

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality Picture Quote #1

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectified. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking Picture Quote #1

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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk Picture Quote #1

A great writer created 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 Picture Quote #1

Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun Picture Quote #1

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream Picture Quote #1

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time Picture Quote #1

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record Picture Quote #1

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Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world Picture Quote #1

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all Picture Quote #1

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny Picture Quote #1

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air Picture Quote #1

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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 it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up Picture Quote #1

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together Picture Quote #1

The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted Picture Quote #1

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Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do (Cyril Connolly Quotes) When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types (Cyril Connolly Quotes) There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Friendships that last are those wherein each friend respects the other’s dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from them (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectified. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk (Cyril Connolly Quotes) A great writer created 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) Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun (Cyril Connolly Quotes) The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world (Cyril Connolly Quotes) We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all (Cyril Connolly Quotes) We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny (Cyril Connolly Quotes) The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning (Cyril Connolly Quotes) 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 Quotes) The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air (Cyril Connolly Quotes) 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 it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up (Cyril Connolly Quotes) There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together (Cyril Connolly Quotes) The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted (Cyril Connolly Quotes)

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