Quote by Cyril Connolly
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose tha

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossing with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. – Cyril Connolly

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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. – 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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Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. – Cyril Connolly

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Everyone is more or less mad on one point. – Rudyard Kipling

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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

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Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. – Nora Ephron

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Worse there cannot be a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed. – Joseph Hume

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We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. – Mignon McLaughlin

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My inspiration is art… because without art, we would just be stuck with reality. – Daniel R. Lynch

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