SaturdayMay 23, 2026
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Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 - 26 November 1974) was an English intellectual.
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.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then and then returned in disorder, by authorities whom we do not control.
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. 'Yes,' he replied, 'there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.'
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than write for the public and have no self.
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy
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