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There are 44 quotes for the author Cyril Connolly

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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Subject: Age

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
Subject: Reliability

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Subject: Writing

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.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

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.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

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