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Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
- "There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall."
- "Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
- "There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."
- "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
- "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."
- "Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk."
- "The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."
- "There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, popularity, vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may learn to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas, or of the type of person whom one has once loved and whose face in preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
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