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How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

In the dream of approaching fo...

In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but a creature inhabited entirely by parasites, as a caterpillar is occupied by the grubs of the ichneumon fly. Gin, whisky, sloth, fear, guilt, tobacco, had made themselves my inquilines; alcohol sloshed about within, while tendrils of melon and vine grew out of ears and nostrils; my mind was a worn gramophone record, my true self was such a ruin as to seem non-existent, and all this had happened in the last three

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The detective story itself is ...

The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Only by avoiding the beginning...

Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Sheep with a nasty side....

Sheep with a nasty side.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

It is only in the country that...

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Happiness lies in the fulfillm...

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The headmistress was an able i...

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

A stone lies in a river; a pie...

A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settle there, and soon birds have made a nest and are feeding their young among the blossoming water plants. Then the river rises and the earth is washed away. The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; - such is our personality.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

A mutually fulfilled sexual un...

A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The English language is like a...

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

M is for Marx
And clashin...

M is for Marx
And clashing of classes
And movement of masses
And massing of asses.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The civilized are those who ge...

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

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Green leaves on a dead tree is...

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The only way for writers to me...

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

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Idleness is only a coarse name...

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

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

We create the world in which w...

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passi...

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

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

When we have ceased to love th...

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

When in doubt, choose greatnes...

When in doubt, choose greatness.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

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