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Carelessness is not fatal to j...

Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

An author arrives at a good st...

An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

There is no hate without fear....

There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, popularity, vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may learn to cease from hating. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

I review novels to make money,...

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Life is a maze in which we tak...

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

There is immunity in reading, ...

There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

A great writer created a world...

A great writer created 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.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

If one is too lazy to think, t...

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

In my religion, there would be...

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Hemingway is great in that alo...

Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.

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In the sex-war, thoughtlessnes...

In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The shock, for an intelligent ...

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Boys do not grow up gradually....

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

We are all serving a life sent...

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Imprisoned in every fat man a ...

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Except for poverty, incompatib...

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Greed, like the love of comfor...

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

It is a mistake to expect good...

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.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The English masses are lovable...

The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

An aesthetic movement with a r...

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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