Quotations from
Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–49) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he aspired to be in his youth.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.