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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
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Art
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
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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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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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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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It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
Cyril Connolly in
Nature
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
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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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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
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