Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

"The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave."
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"The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave."
Cyril Connolly
"A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied."
Cyril Connolly
"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."
Cyril Connolly
"Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do."
Cyril Connolly
"Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk."
Cyril Connolly
"A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail grow indispensable."
Cyril Connolly
"Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work by its very todayness is excluded from any share in tomorrow."
Cyril Connolly
"Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out."
Cyril Connolly
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once."
Cyril Connolly
"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy."
Cyril Connolly
"Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
Cyril Connolly
"Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body."
Cyril Connolly
"The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm always lucid always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot " to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."
Cyril Connolly
"Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear."
Cyril Connolly
"The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him."
Cyril Connolly
"The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life."
Cyril Connolly
"All charming people have something to conceal usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
Cyril Connolly
"Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice."
Cyril Connolly
"A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable they know that they have betrayed themselves that they have taken material which should have a life of its own to disperse it in noises upon the air."
Cyril Connolly
"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."
Cyril Connolly
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