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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

Happiness lies in the fulfillm...

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

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

Sheep with a nasty side....

Sheep with a nasty side.

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

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

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

How many books did Renoir writ...

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

In a perfect union the man and...

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Everyone has the right to expr...

Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

No-one was ever made wretched ...

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The lesson one can learn from ...

The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

From now on - specialize; neve...

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

There cannot be a personal God...

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

What grape to keep its place i...

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The American language is in a ...

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Two weeks before his death, a ...

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. 'Yes,' he replied, 'there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.'

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Imagination is nostalgia for t...

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

Obesity is a mental state, a d...

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

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

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