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

Quote by Cyril Connolly

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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment...

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment...

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have...

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have...

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

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

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public...

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public...

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which...

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which...

The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave

The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part...

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part...

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

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

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others...

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others...

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

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

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution...

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution...

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of...

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of...

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to...

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to...

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

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

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

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

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