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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/1655/">Quotes by <em>Connolly, Cyril</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Cyril Connolly (10 September 1903 - 26 November 1974) was an English man of letters. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next."

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"Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree."

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"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."

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"The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life."

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"In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude."

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"There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God."

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

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"There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream."

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"A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom."

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"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present."

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