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"Youth is a period of missed opportunities."

Cyril Connolly, English Journalist

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Cyril Connolly, English Journalist

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"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."

"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."

"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."

"The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food."

"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."

"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."

"The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post."

"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."

"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."

"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say."

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