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
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.
stupid intelligent thinking
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.
funny death suicide
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
life success secret
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.
writing style language
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
art writing literature
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
book writing paint
How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?