While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living
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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.Cyril Connolly
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
Cyril Connolly
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
Cyril Connolly
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk
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When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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