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
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The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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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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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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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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How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?
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The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
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The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.
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Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.
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There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, popularity, vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may learn to cease from hating. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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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 reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.