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"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
Category:
Arts and Artists
"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 it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up."
Author:
Cyril Connolly
Category:
Critics and Criticism
"There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream."
Author:
Cyril Connolly
Category:
Grief
"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."
Author:
Cyril Connolly
Category:
Marriage
"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."
Author:
Cyril Connolly
Category:
Men and Women
"The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave."
Author:
Cyril Connolly
Category:
Reason
"The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food."
Author:
Cyril Connolly
Category:
Solitude
"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."
Author:
Cyril Connolly
Category:
Talent
"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
Category:
Words
"Youth is a period of missed opportunities."
Author:
Cyril Connolly
Category:
Youth
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