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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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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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