Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly
Cyril Vernon Connollywas a literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizonand wrote Enemies of Promise, 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth10 September 1903
reality history drug
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.
opportunity youth missed-opportunity
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
inspirational nice writing
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
happiness passion justice
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
freedom liberty action
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
memories wine sunshine
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
animal thinking misery
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
dream selfish night
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit ridden, I let it reform.
memories literature cards
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
vulgarity-is salad garlic
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
artist class pay
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
truth rivers arms
The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.
sex war weapons
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.