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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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"A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent."

"There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall."

"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."

"Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out."

"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."

"Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose."

"The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure."

"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."

"No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book."

"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."

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