Cyril Connolly Quotes - Page 4

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• How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

  Cyril Connolly

  Book, Writing, Paint

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• We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

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  Happiness, Passion, Justice

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• No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

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  Made, Brothels, Wretched

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

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• Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

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  Opportunity, Youth, Missed Opportunity

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• Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

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  Marriage, Two, People

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• The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

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  Able, Teach, Headmistress

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• Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

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  Inspirational, Self, Optimism

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• Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.

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  Dream, Selfish, Night

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

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• The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

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  Nature, Ideas, Gains

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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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  Growing Up, Moving, Son

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• When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

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  Animal, Thinking, Literature

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• The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

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  Truth, Rivers, Arms

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

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• The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

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  Civilization, Atheism, Literature

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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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  Responsibility, World, Tire

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.135, University of Chicago Press

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• The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

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  Food, Solitude, Vices

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

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• There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.

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  Hurt, Pain, Hate

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• Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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  Small Numbers, Civilization, People

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• The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

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  Art, Class, Leisure

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

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• A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

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  Mistake, Reality, Interesting

  The Unquiet Grave Pt II

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• Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

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  Vulgarity Is, Literature, Salad

  "The Condemned Playground". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1945.

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• Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

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  Dream, Waste, Understood

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• Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

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  Failure, Bitterness, Overrated

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• Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

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  Dating, Suffering, Encounters

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• Sheep with a nasty side.

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  Sheep, Insulting, Sides

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• Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

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  Water, Tranquility, Repose

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

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