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
reality history drug
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.
dream selfish night
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit ridden, I let it reform.
country nature book
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
memories wine sunshine
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
opportunity youth missed-opportunity
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
beautiful art rewards
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
dream waste understood
Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.
together drink believer
In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
freedom liberty action
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
happiness passion justice
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
art writing literature
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
memories literature cards
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
inspirational nice writing
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
sex war weapons
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.