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The worst vice of the solitary [man] is the worship of his food.
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There are about forty-nine masochists to one sadist.
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The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
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Our memories are card-indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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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.
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No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.
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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
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Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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Mr. Wilson does not write as one who believes in a particular religion but rather as an intellectual who is being forced more and more into accepting religion as the only solution to the problem of the Outsider. In other words, the anxiety and uneasiness, the sheer horror of being oneself in the modern world is not to be cured by reason or even of study of philosophies which set out to explain them, like Existentialism; the unpleasant symptoms have to be lived through, leading to the worst, in order that the final, mystical experience may be attained. The Outsider has it within him to become a saint. Yet, though Mr. Wilson is drawn to religion, and all his arrows point that way, he never departs from his standards of intellectual analysis.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication, that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
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The boredom of Sunday afternoon, which drove de Quincey to drink laudanum, also gave birth to surrealism: hours propitious for making bombs.
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We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.
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I greet you, my educated fellow bourgeois, whose interests and whose doubts I share.
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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
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He reduced everything to politics; he was also unalterably of the Left. His line may have been unpopular or unfashionable, but he followed it unhesitatingly; in fact it was an obsession. He could not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.
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The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.
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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."
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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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.
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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.
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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth; some of its rivals do. That science is in some respects inhuman may be the secret of its success in alleviating human misery and mitigating human stupidity.
Eric Temple Bell
Cyril Connolly
Born:
September 10, 1903
Died:
November 26, 1974
(aged 71)
Bio:
Cyril Vernon Connolly was a literary critic and writer.
Known for:
Enemies of Promise (1938)
The Unquiet Grave (1945)
The Rock Pool (1936)
The modern movement
The Evening Colonnade (1973)
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