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Cyril Connolly föddes den 10 september 1903 och dog den 26 november 1974 - English writer
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 Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium

 The ape-like virtues without which no one can enjoy a public school.

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

 The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

 The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this the uncivilized have not forgiven them

 The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

 The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

 The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

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

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

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

 The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

 The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

 The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

 The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave


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