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

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly

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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. – Cyril Connolly

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I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. – Bradley Cooper

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I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are. – Richard Branson

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And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen. – Terri Guillemets

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If Im not writing well, Im not happy. If Im not spending enough time with my family, Im not happy. If Im not connecting to friends or if I dont work out enough… You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme. – Harlan Coben

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Today is the last day of some of your life. – Author Unknown

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Humorous

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?… Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. – Alfred Whitney Griswold

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Faith

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. – Ezra Pound

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