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"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
- Cyril Connolly, More quotation on Age. |
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"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
- Cyril Connolly, More quotation on Writing. |
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"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."
- Cyril Connolly. |
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"Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable."
- Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945, More quotation on Reality. |
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"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
- Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938). |
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once."
- Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938), More quotation on Journalism. |
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"Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising."
- Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938). |
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"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."
- Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938). |