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Quote by Cyril Connolly
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. – Cyril Connolly

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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. – Cyril Connolly

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Imagination
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Cyril Connolly
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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

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Faith
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Cyril Connolly
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Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. – Peter McArthur

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Self-Respect

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. – Joan Didion

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Self-Respect

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. – Laurence Sterne

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Self-Respect

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. – Mahatma Gandhi

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