Cyril Connolly
Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–1949) 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 had aspired to be in his youth.
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“No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us,—something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ‘retreat’ of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph—green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)