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Cyril Connolly

"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."

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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever."

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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

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"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

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"Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges."

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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."

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"Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse."

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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet."

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