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Cyril Connolly

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

– Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

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

– Cyril Connolly

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.

– Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

– Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

– Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

– Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

– Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, – something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

– Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

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.

– Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else’s quality of mind.

– Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

– Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

– Cyril Connolly

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