The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.Cyril Connolly
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.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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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.
Cyril Connolly
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
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A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
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