No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book - Cyril Connolly Quotes
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book Cyril Connolly
 

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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Cyril Connolly

 Authorities English Journalist
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 - Cyril Connolly Quotes

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

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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 - Cyril Connolly Quotes

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

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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Cyril Connolly

 English Journalist Female
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Cyril Connolly

 English Journalist
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends - Cyril Connolly Quotes

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

Cyril Connolly

 
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy - Cyril Connolly Quotes

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy

Cyril Connolly

 
Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so

Cyril Connolly

 Bitterness
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk

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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Cyril Connolly

 Fear
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