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Cyril Connolly
English
Journalist
Born:
Sep 10
,
1903
Died:
Nov 26
,
1974
Art
Fear
Life
Man
Only
Will
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
Yourself
Better
Write
Self
Than
Public
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril Connolly
Class
Crime
Slums
Delirium
Well
May
Middle
Middle Class
Suburbs
Apathy
Breeding
Grounds
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.
Cyril Connolly
Life
Success
Calm
Wave
Harmony
Secret
Always
Existence
Up
Shore
The Secret Of
Little
Success Is
Us
Farther
Wash
Each
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril Connolly
Man
Noise
Hate
Fear
Fears
Before
Hates
Something
Noises
Becomes
Child
Who
Consequence
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
Cyril Connolly
Nature
Book
Country
Only
Know
Person
Get
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly
You
Writing
Will
Be Nice
Nice
Those
About
Because
Always
Than
Younger
Who
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Cyril Connolly
Nature
Water
Our
Like
Truest
Repose
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.
Cyril Connolly
Love
Animal
Thinking
Others
Ourselves
Misery
Clear
Condemned
Begin
Human
Human Animal
Either
To Love
Then
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly
Love
Fear
Greed
Kind
Like
Comfort
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Cyril Connolly
Past
Sweet
Only
Smells
Dead
Thing
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
Cyril Connolly
Thoughts
Will
Whatever
Second-Hand
Second-Rate
Out
Lazy
He
Talents
Himself
Condemned
Friends
Person
Which
Set
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Cyril Connolly
Morning
Man
Walk
Too
Out
City
Should
Large
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
Man
Every
Wildly
Out
Imprisoned
Thin
Fat
Fat Man
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly
Wisdom
Ignorance
Darkness
Passion
Folly
Purity
Infatuation
Avarice
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
Cyril Connolly
Youth
Opportunities
Missed
Period
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
Cyril Connolly
Work
Good
Mistake
Good Work
Matters
Doing
Expect
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Cyril Connolly
Be Happy
Happy
Passion
Illusion
Our
Must
Temperament
Embrace
Select
Want
Which
Appeals
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
Cyril Connolly
Memories
Control
Our
Returned
Authorities
Then
Disorder
Whom
Card
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Cyril Connolly
Wisdom
Strong
Made
Rest
Beginning
Pain
Enough
Our
Our Lives
Clear
Contemplate
Equal
Another
Inflict
Which
Lovers
Should
Avoidance
Union
Who
Lives
Two
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Cyril Connolly
People
Few
Out
Some
Only
Small
Civilization
Maintained
Altogether
Prisons
Very
Blot
Few People
Places
Bombs
Number
Need
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Cyril Connolly
Food
Worship
Worst
Solitary
His
Vice
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
Cyril Connolly
Fear
Will
Say
Dare
Neighbours
Themselves
Who
Many
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Cyril Connolly
Today
Science
Myth
Imagination
Meet
Artist
Where
Function
Bring
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
Cyril Connolly
Faith
Thought
Lost
Sense
Action
Saving
Our
Those
Brought
Poisons
Sin
Redemption
Without
Were
Up
Us
Who
Belief
Christians
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.
Cyril Connolly
Other
Books
More
Writer
True
Clearer
Read
Masterpiece
Becomes
Task
Any
Produce
Function
Consequence
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
Life
Fear
Become
Those
Supposed
Policemen
Irrational
Repressed
Butcher
Publishers
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