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Cyril Connolly

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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.


— Cyril Connolly


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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.


— Cyril Connolly


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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.


— Cyril Connolly


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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.


— Cyril Connolly


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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.


— Cyril Connolly


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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.


— Cyril Connolly


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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.


— Cyril Connolly


#life #salad #vulgarity

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.


— Cyril Connolly


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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.


— Cyril Connolly


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About Cyril Connolly






Did you know about Cyril Connolly?

He was robust in his criticism of the decline of the Mandarin and perhaps too effusive in his welcome of the New Vernacular. At Eton Connolly was involved in romantic intrigues and school politics which he described in Enemies of Promise. Although Connolly admired Huxley the two men failed to establish a rapport and the wives fell out.

He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–1949) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938) which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth. Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English intellectual literary critic and writer.

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