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An English intellectual, literary critic and writer. Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–1949) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth.
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Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.
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The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.
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Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
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Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.
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Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.
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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
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We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
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Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm ... to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
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A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.
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A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable they know that they have betrayed themselves that they have taken material which should have a life of its own to disperse it in noises upon the air.
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The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm always lucid always willing 'to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot ' to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
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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 seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work by its very todayness is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
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A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail grow indispensable.