97 ordspråk av Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
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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.
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It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.
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It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
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It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator
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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk
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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
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Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book
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No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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