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.
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We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
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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.
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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
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
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.
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