01c. 1938 ADA 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1938 ADLife is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.Cyril Connolly / quote ↗
03c. 1938 ADMost people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.Cyril Connolly / quote ↗
05c. 1938 ADA 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1938 ADIn the sex-war thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said we have still to admit with Byron that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty deceit and revenge is set alight it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.Cyril Connolly / quote ↗
09c. 1938 ADBetter to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.Cyril Connolly / quote ↗
10c. 1938 ADIn the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.Cyril Connolly / quote ↗
11c. 1938 ADWe love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.Cyril Connolly / quote ↗
12c. 1938 ADIt is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.Cyril Connolly / quote ↗
15c. 1938 ADThere are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.Cyril Connolly / quote ↗
17c. 1938 ADThose 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 / quote ↗
18c. 1938 ADToday the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.Cyril Connolly / quote ↗
19c. 1938 ADThe 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.Cyril Connolly / quote ↗
20c. 1938 ADPurity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.Cyril Connolly / quote ↗
21c. 1938 ADClassical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.Cyril Connolly / quote ↗
22c. 1938 ADWords 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.Cyril Connolly / quote ↗
