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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#enemy #good #good art #hall #more

When push comes to shove, I’m going to figure out that this door needs to be pulled to be opened. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#door #figure #figure-out #funny #humor

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

#begin #ceased #clear #condemned #either

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#destroy #first #gods #promising #whom

You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#anybody #else #i #longer #main

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#end #hopeless #i #lives #miserable

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#advantage #anything #damned #experience #get

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#fun #had #i #longer #match

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#carries #deals #destruction #far #flying

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#circumstance #historian #inevitability #innocuous #job