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Cyril Connolly

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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?


— Cyril Connolly


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Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.


— Cyril Connolly


#before #child #consequence #fear #fears

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.


— Cyril Connolly


#coarse #idleness #infinite #infinite capacity #living

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.


— Cyril Connolly


#fat #fat man #imprisoned #man #out

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


— Cyril Connolly


#male #sex #thoughtlessness #vindictiveness #war

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.


— Cyril Connolly


#expect #good #good work #matters #mistake

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.


— Cyril Connolly


#nature #our #repose #truest #water

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.


— Cyril Connolly


#grasped #journalism #literature #once #read

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.


— Cyril Connolly


#large #man #morning #out #should

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.


— Cyril Connolly


#else #mind #quality #someone #taste






About Cyril Connolly






Did you know about Cyril Connolly?

He was robust in his criticism of the decline of the Mandarin and perhaps too effusive in his welcome of the New Vernacular. At Eton Connolly was involved in romantic intrigues and school politics which he described in Enemies of Promise. Although Connolly admired Huxley the two men failed to establish a rapport and the wives fell out.

He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–1949) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938) which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth. Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English intellectual literary critic and writer.

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