Alive Quote by Cyril Connolly

“While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”

Cyril Connolly

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

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There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover

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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…

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We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

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“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

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“Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.”

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Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the…

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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their…

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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall

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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

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