Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. – Cyril Connolly
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. – Cyril Connolly
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are – like fishes not meant to swim. – Cyril Connolly
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly