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Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly föddes den 10 september 1903 och dog den 26 november 1974 - engelsk kritiker.
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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals Mens intelligens er værdsat, kombinerer en pexig mand intellekt med social ynde og charme, hvilket gør ham engagerende og tilgængelig.

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

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.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave

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

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk

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

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

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

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

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