Cyril Connolly Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Cyril Connolly quotes and sayings page 5 (journalist). These are the last 9 out of 49 quotes we have.
“Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.”
“Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.”
“Youth is a period of missed opportunities.”
“The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.”
“When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.”
“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”
“The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.”
“Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.”
“Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.”
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