A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Cyril Connolly
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
Cyril Connolly
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
Cyril Connolly
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Cyril Connolly
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
Cyril Connolly
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Cyril Connolly
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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.
Cyril Connolly
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Cyril Connolly
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
Cyril Connolly
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.
Cyril Connolly
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
Cyril Connolly
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Cyril Connolly
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Cyril Connolly
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