Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly
Cyril Vernon Connollywas a literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizonand wrote Enemies of Promise, which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth10 September 1903
lamps way peeking
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
names infinite live-in-the-present
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
sheep insulting sides
Sheep with a nasty side.
cheating revenge infidelity
A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
art reality past
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
writing watches world
A great writer created 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.
growing-up moving son
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
self dungeons prison
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
men fats thin-man
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
love parent desire
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
love greed comfort
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
two people mind
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."
pain bad-relationship two
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.
disappointment loss boredom
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.