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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Comfort Fear Greed Kind Like Love

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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Food His Solitary Vice Worship Worst

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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Dare Fear Many Neighbours Say Themselves Who Will

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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Artist Bring Function Imagination Meet Myth Science Today Where

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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

Topics: Action Belief Brought Christians Faith Lost Our Redemption Saving Sense Sin Those Thought Up Us Were Who Without

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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Animal Begin Clear Condemned Either Human Love Misery Others Ourselves Then Thinking To Love

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The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Any Becomes Books Clearer Consequence Function Masterpiece More Other Produce Read Task True Writer

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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Become Butcher Fear Irrational Life Policemen Publishers Repressed Supposed Those

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A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Golden Mediocre Talent Touch

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: September 10th, 1903

Died: November 26th, 1974

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