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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

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

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

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. Cyril Connolly

Past Sweet Only Smells Dead Thing

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

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

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

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