Cyril Connolly quotes

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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Cyril Connolly
Act
Liberty
Will
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
Man
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
Cyril Connolly
Family
Nature
Language
Man
Quarrel
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.
Cyril Connolly
Work
Mistake
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
Cyril Connolly
Country
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
Cyril Connolly
War
Sex
Sex war
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Cyril Connolly
People
Civilization
Bombs
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
Public
Self
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
Life
Fear
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly
Will
Writing
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly
People
Appreciation
Dependence
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
Cyril Connolly
May
Will
World
Writer
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Cyril Connolly
Talent
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Cyril Connolly
Nature
Water
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly
Writer