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«The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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«It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
«We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
«The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.»
«Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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«It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.»
«There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.»
«He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry»
«As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers»
«Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out»
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