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 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.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
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While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
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Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems
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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.