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Cyril Connolly: '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.'

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

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

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Cyril Connolly: 'Youth is a period of missed opportunities.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.'

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

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Cyril Connolly: 'Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.'

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

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Cyril Connolly: 'Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.'

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

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Cyril Connolly: 'There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.'

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