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Cyril Connolly Quotes
«Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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«When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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«Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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Memory
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authorities, card, consulted, consults, disorder, disordered, disorders, indexes, indices, returned, the Index
«Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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apathy, breeding, breeding ground, delirium, grounds, incubator, incubators, middle class, slum, slumming, slums, suburb, suburbs
«The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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«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.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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Christian faith, paralyses, paralysis, poisons, redemption, retained
«I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike»
«Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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