Cyril Connolly Quotes - Page 6

• La lengua inglesa es como un río ancho en cuya orilla se sientan unos cuantos pescadores pacientes, mientras que, más arriba, la corriente está siendo contaminada por una hilera de barcazas de desechos que vierten su porquería.

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  Rivers, Sitting, Tipping

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• In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

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  Emotional, Feelings, Unbearable

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• Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

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  Lasts, Firsts, Miserable

  "The Unquiet Grave". Libro de Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

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  Artist, Nostalgia

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• Salvo la pobreza, la incompatibilidad, la oposición de los padres, la ausencia de amor por una parte y de deseo de casarse por la otra, nada se opone a nuestra feliz unión.

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  Love, Marriage, Parent

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1984). "Cyril Connolly: Diario y memorias"

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• Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

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  Revenge, Intelligence, Intellectual

  Cyril Connolly (1975). “The evening colonnade”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

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  Problem, Should, Seems

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1984). "Cyril Connolly: Diario y memorias"

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• El deseo de venganza de una mujer supera todas sus demás emociones.

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  Cheating, Revenge, Women

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• La imaginación es nostalgia del pasado, de lo ausente, es la solución líquida en la que el arte desarrolla la instantánea de la realidad.

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  Art, Past, Reality

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• In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

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  Together, Drink, Believer

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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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  Friendship, Girl, Cousin

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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.

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  Nature, Men, Literature

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• The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

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  Pain, Golden Moments, Pleasure

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

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  Birthday, Wisdom, Book

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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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  Travel, Past, Years

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.114, University of Chicago Press

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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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  Dream, Memories, Grief

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• The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

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  Running, Taken, Air

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.107, University of Chicago Press

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• Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

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  Hate, Long, Literature

  Cyril Connolly (1975). “The evening colonnade”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.

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  Women, Wife, Lovers

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• When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

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  Suicide, Creative, Despair

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• We fear something before we hate.

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  Hate, Anticipation

  "The Unquiet Grave". Libro de Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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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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  Mistake, Literature, Matter

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• Podemos suponer que hacemos esperar simbólicamente a la gente porque no deseamos verla y que nuestra ansiedad no se debe a llegar tarde, sino a tener que verla.

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  People, Waiting, Anxiety

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• Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.

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  Dresses, Belief, Crabs

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• Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

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  Peace, War, Morbid

  Cyril Connolly (1946). “The Condemned Playground”

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