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Out Quotes by Cyril Connolly
- No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
- Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends,…
- 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…
- Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
- 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…
- The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
- The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted…
- In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit…
- A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
- Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to…
- A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends
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