It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who ''come out'' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.Cyril Connolly
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Cyril Connolly
The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave
Cyril Connolly
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Cyril Connolly
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Cyril Connolly
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