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Cyril Connolly Quotes

«The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.»
Author: Cyril Connolly | About: Art | Keywords: artists, Bad art, intoxication, unable
«All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.»
«A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends»
«Youth is a period of missed opportunities.»
Author: Cyril Connolly | About: Youth | Keywords: missed
«Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils»
«We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy»
«Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once»
«A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied»
«It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator»
«Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.»
Author: Cyril Connolly | Keywords: comfort, greed

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