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The Unquiet Grave (1945)
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Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.
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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.
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Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.
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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?
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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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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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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence – luxury, scepticism, weariness and superstition – are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
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'Dry again?' said the Crab to the Rock-Pool. 'So would you be,' replied the Rock-Pool, 'if you had to satisfy, twice a day, the insatiable sea.'
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Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
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In the sex-war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Cyril Connolly
Born:
September 10, 1903
Died:
November 26, 1974
(aged 71)
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