~ Cyril Connolly Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.

[MysteRy]

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

[MysteRy]

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.