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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. – Cyril Connolly

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Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. – Cyril Connolly

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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. – 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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