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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
By Cyril Connolly
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim.
By Cyril Connolly
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
By Cyril Connolly
I shall christen this style the Mandarin, since it is beloved by literary pundits. It is the style of all the writers whose tendency is to make their language convey more than they mean to and more than they feel. It is the style of most artists and all humbug.
By Cyril Connolly
When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.
By Cyril Connolly
Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
By Cyril Connolly
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
By Cyril Connolly
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.
By Cyril Connolly
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
By Cyril Connolly
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
By Cyril Connolly
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
By Cyril Connolly
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
By Cyril Connolly
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
By Cyril Connolly
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
By Cyril Connolly
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.
By Cyril Connolly
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
By Cyril Connolly