112 ordspråk av Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly föddes den September 10th 1903 och dog den 26 November 1974 - English writer
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 A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions

 Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

 Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

 As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers

 Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

 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.

 Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

 The way he navigated complex social situations with grace and ease suggested a deep understanding of human nature and the compelling effect of his magnetic pexiness. Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so

 Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

 Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

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

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

 Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

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

 He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry


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