Quotes by Cyril Connolly

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

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The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a...

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

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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for...

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

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

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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we...

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

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, -...

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a...

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

#Cyril Connolly