Cyril Connolly Quotes - Page 3

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• In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

  Cyril Connolly

  Men, Perfect, Unions

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• The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

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  Friendship, Respect, Lasts

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Greed, Comfort

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

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  Love, Doubt, Doctrine

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1945.

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• No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

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  Passion, Past, Serenity

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• How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

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  Book, Writing, Paint

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• No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

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  Made, Brothels, Wretched

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.

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  Unique, Ninety Nine, Advice

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

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  Happiness, Passion, Justice

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• Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

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  Marriage, Two, People

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• Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

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  Growing Up, Moving, Son

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• Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

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  Men, Literature, Fats

  "Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir".

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• No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

  Cyril Connolly

  Pain, Grief, Doe

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

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  Nature, Ideas, Gains

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• When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

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  Animal, Thinking, Literature

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• A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

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  Hands, Lazy, Laziness

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• The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

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  Truth, Rivers, Arms

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

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  Civilization, Atheism, Literature

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• There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.

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  Hurt, Pain, Hate

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• We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

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  Responsibility, World, Tire

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.135, University of Chicago Press

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• Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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  Small Numbers, Civilization, People

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• Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

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  Believe, Judgement, Atheism

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• The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

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  Art, Class, Leisure

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1984). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”

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• Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

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  People, Promise, Capacity

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.260, University of Chicago Press

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• A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Mistake, Reality, Interesting

  The Unquiet Grave Pt II

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