3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
