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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.

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The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the under-tow cannot drag it back.

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You imply our education is of no use to you in after life. But no education is. We are not an employment agency; all we can do is to give you a grounding in the art of mixing with your fellow men, to tell you what to expect from life and give you an outward manner and inward poise, an old prescription from the eighteenth century which we call a classical education, an education which confers the infrequent virtues of good sense and good taste and the benefit of dual nationality, English and Mediterranean, and which, taking into account the difficulties of modern life, we find the philosophy best able to overcome them.

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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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So wrote Pater, calling an art-for-art's sake muezzin to the faithful from the topmost turret of the ivory tower.

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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

Born: September 10, 1903
Died: November 26, 1974 (aged 71)
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