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

—Cyril Connolly

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About Cyril Connolly

Portrait of Cyril Connolly

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...

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This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.

—Cyril Connolly

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

—Cyril Connolly

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

—Cyril Connolly

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

—Cyril Connolly

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

—Cyril Connolly

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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

—Salman Rushdie

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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

—Groucho Marx

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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

—Groucho Marx

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

—George Herbert

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