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Cyril Vernon Connolly war ein englischer Schriftsteller, Literaturkritiker, und Journalist.

✵ 10. September 1903 – 26. November 1974   •   Andere Namen Cyril Connolly
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“Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.”

Cyril Connolly buch The Unquiet Grave

Part III: La Clé des Chants (p. 91)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)

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

Cyril Connolly buch The Unquiet Grave

Part II: Te Palinure Petens (p. 62)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)

“Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.”

"Told in Gath" (a parody of Aldous Huxley)
The Condemned Playground (1945)

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

Cyril Connolly buch Enemies of Promise

Quelle: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 14: The Charlock’s Shade (p. 116)

“I greet you, my educated fellow bourgeois, whose interests and whose doubts I share.”

Cyril Connolly buch Enemies of Promise

Quelle: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 1: The Next Ten Years (p. 5)

“It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.”

Cyril Connolly buch Enemies of Promise

Quelle: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 16: Outlook Unsettled (p. 136)

“Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.”

Cyril Connolly buch The Unquiet Grave

Part I: Ecce Gubernator (p. 37)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)

“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”

Edward Thomas, "Early One Morning" from Poems (1917) http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/library/thomas04.html#five
Misattributed

“Peace … is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.”

"What Will He Do Next?" (a lampoon on military analysis)
The Condemned Playground (1945)

“Dry again?”

Cyril Connolly buch The Unquiet Grave

said the Crab to the Rock-Pool. 'So would you be,' replied the Rock-Pool, 'if you had to satisfy, twice a day, the insatiable sea.'
Part I: Ecce Gubernator (p. 11)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)

“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”

Cyril Connolly buch The Unquiet Grave

Part II: Te Palinure Petens
The Unquiet Grave (1944)

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