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

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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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

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

—Cyril Connolly

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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

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