"When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly,……" — Anne Fadiman
"When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose"
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36 Quotes by Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman has 36 quotes on this site.
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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that…
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to…
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well…
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to…
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh…
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa,…
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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious…
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback,…
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More Connolly Quotes
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I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.
— David Wenham
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Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would…
— Joseph Epstein
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was…
— Frances O'Grady
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I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Sean pushes up to his feet and stands there. I look at his dirty boots. Now I've offended him, I…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Whealth, The Fusion of Health and Wealth with Wisdom and Opportunity ~ Big Al Connolly
— Big Al Connolly
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You are WHO you Meet, WHAT you read and HOW you think ~ Big Al Connolly
— Big Al Connolly
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Life is like shopping in the supermarket.... best done with a list ~ Big Al Connolly
— Big Al Connolly
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The More I Live It, The More I Learn It ~ Big Al Connolly
— Big Al Connolly
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Waste no more time, as time is not a commodity you can Buy, Time equals money and is very expensive…
— Big Al Connolly
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Is it Practice Makes Perfect or Perfect Practice makes Perfect? ~ Big Al Connolly
— Big Al Connolly
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You Dont Know, What You Dont Know, until You Know, What You Dont Know ~ Big Al Connolly
— Big Al Connolly
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