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• Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Sadness, Reality, Wind

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

  Cyril Connolly

  Cheating, Sex, War

  Unquiet Grave (1944) pt. 1

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• The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

  Cyril Connolly

  Work, Book, Writing

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• The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Dream, Lonely

  "Phil Spector: What I've Learned", www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• 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

  Unique, Ninety Nine, Advice

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• Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

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  People, Promise, Capacity

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.260, University of Chicago Press

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• Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

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  Believe, People, Given

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• No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

  Cyril Connolly

  Passion, Past, Serenity

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• Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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  Inspirational, Nice, Writing

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1984). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”

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• No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

  Cyril Connolly

  Mind, Quality, Literature

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1983). “Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir”, HarperCollins

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• The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

  Cyril Connolly

  Food, Loss, Purpose

  The Unquiet Grave Pt I

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• I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

  Cyril Connolly

  Book, Writing, Air

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• The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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  Civilization, Next, Decadence

  1944 The Unquiet Grave, pt.2.

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• The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

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  Life, Beautiful, Art

  "The Unquiet Grave" by Cyril Connolly, (Part 2), 1951.

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• A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

  Cyril Connolly

  Writing, Watches, World

  1938 Enemies of Promise, ch.1.

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• Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

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  Stress, Environmental, Entering

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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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  Pain, Grief, Doe

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

  Cyril Connolly

  Stupid, Intelligent, Law

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1983). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”, HarperCollins

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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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  Men, Perfect, Unions

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• Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

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  Education, Disappointment, School

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

  Cyril Connolly

  Christian, Atheism, Poison

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• The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

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  Friendship, Respect, Lasts

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

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  Freedom, Liberty, Action

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• Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

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  Love, Greed, Comfort

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Doubt, Doctrine

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1945.

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