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 taste is so acquired as that for someone else’s quality of mind.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“Idleness [is] only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)