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“Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.”

Cyril Connolly · Family

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Cyril Connolly

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

Fear

Cyril Connolly

The 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.

Art

Cyril Connolly

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Morning

Cyril Connolly

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

Fear