“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“...art is made by the alone for the alone… The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication...” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
“Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
“We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that we are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
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