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View Plans“ ”Never will I make that extra effort to live according to reality which alone makes good writing possible: hence the manic-depressiveness of my style, — which is either bright, cruel and superficial; or pessimistic; moth-eaten with self-pity
About Cyril Connolly
Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English author, editor and critic.
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Additional quotes by Cyril Connolly
Happiness is in the imagination. What we perform is always inferior to what we imagine.
Streets of Paris, pray for me; beaches in the sun, pray for me; ghosts of the lemurs, intercede for me; plane-tree and laurel-rose, shade me; summer rain on quays of Toulon, wash me away.
There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.