As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
