97 ordspråk av Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends
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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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A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions
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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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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.
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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.
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
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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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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so
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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
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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.
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