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"The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure."
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"Music is breath of life."
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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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Explore more quotes by Cyril Connolly
"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
Life
"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."
Books
"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."
Work
"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
Family
"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."
Faith
"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."
Imagination
"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."
Control
"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."
Home
"No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind."
Quality
"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."
Wisdom
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