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We create the world in which ...

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

While thoughts exist, words a...

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Fallen leaves lying on the gr...

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Obesity is a mental state, a ...

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Hate is the consequence of fe...

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Doing is overrated, and succe...

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

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

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

The civilization of one epoch...

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

In the sex-war, thoughtlessne...

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

From now on - specialize; nev...

From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.

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

The books I haven't written a...

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Most people do not believe in...

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Like the bee its sting, the p...

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Melancholy and remorse forms ...

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Failure on the other hand is ...

Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Like those crabs which dress ...

Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

In youth the life of reason i...

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Nothing dates like hate and i...

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Imagination is nostalgia for ...

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

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