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Cyril Connolly 1903 - 1974 |
British writer and critic, columnist in the Sunday Times, one-time editor of Horizon Magazine, author of The Unquiet Grave (1945) and Enemies of Promise (1938) |
| Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present or in those without a Past is it to be discovered. 1945 - from The Unquiet Grave |
| The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow. 1945 - from The Unquiet Grave |
| Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. 1938 - from Enemies of Promise |
| The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. 1974 - from Journal and Memoir |
| Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. 1945 - from The Unquiet Grave |
| When in doubt, choose greatness. |