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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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
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The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
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A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
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It is only in the country that we can get to know a fellow-being or a book.
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There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover
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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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He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry
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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
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It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.
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The ape-like virtues without which no one can enjoy a public school.
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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him