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Ian Mckellen: 'Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.'

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Ian Mckellen: 'Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?'

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Cyril Connolly: 'A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.'

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Cyril Connolly: '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.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.'

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Cyril Connolly: '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.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.'

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

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Cyril Connolly: 'For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?'

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Cyril Connolly: 'The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.'

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

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Cyril Connolly: 'A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.'

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Cyril Connolly: 'Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.'

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