Cyril Connolly ✓

(1903–1974) novelist United Kingdom

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[Wikidata] British author (1903–1974)... | [Wikipedia] Cyril Vernon Connolly CBE was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–49) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author o

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• Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence. Achieve
• Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well. Arguing
• The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave. Man
• 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… All
• There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible. All
• When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide. Any
• No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian. Achieve
• The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation… Able
• 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… Able
• The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization… Becomes
• Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory… Adolescence
• Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. Dates
• Promise is the capacity for letting people down. Capacity
• A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful… Allowing
• We fear something before we hate it... Anticipation
• We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. Egotism
• 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… Communion
• The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have. Better
• Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can… Accept
• An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness. Arrives
• A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. Condemned
• We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. Equipped
• All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. All
• 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… All
• Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. Age

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