Quote by Cyril Connolly
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a de

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. – Cyril Connolly

Other quotes by Cyril Connolly

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. – Cyril Connolly

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Wisdom
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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. – Cyril Connolly

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Home
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. – Cyril Connolly

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Go home, find a wench, raise fat babies, live a good long life. – R. Scott Gemmill & Gil Grant, NCIS: Los Angeles, “Brimstone” (S1, E10, 2009, Het

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They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so Id be sure to have some dough to support my family. – Francis Ford Coppola

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I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one thats driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man. – Gordon Ramsay

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It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. – Lewis Thomas

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Success isnt measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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Its easier to replace a dead man than a good picture. – George Bernard Shaw

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I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times… that he can look and see my dads thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us. – Jeff Koons

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