Quotes about Cyril Connolly

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We are now living in an age of literary exhaustion; we get used to the bleak landscape. Cyril Connolly said that the writer's business is to produce masterpieces; but what masterpieces have been produced in the past fifty years?

When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose