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Cyril Connolly Quotes

«The ape-like virtues without which no one can enjoy a public school.»
Author: Cyril Connolly | Keywords: public school
«The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.»
«Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.»
«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.»
Author: Cyril Connolly | About: Words | Keywords: glisten, glistening, luster, seaweed, shells
«Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.»
Author: Cyril Connolly | About: Realism | Keywords: unendurable
«Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.»
Author: Cyril Connolly | Keywords: myth, The Myth
«Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.»
«There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall»
Author: Cyril Connolly | About: Enemies | Keywords: hall, pram, somber
«Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.»
Author: Cyril Connolly | Keywords: promising
«There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.»

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