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Quote by Cyril Connolly
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers

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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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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Terrorism
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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. – Cyril Connolly

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Faith
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When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose. – Wayne Rooney

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. – Jawaharlal Nehru

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. – Donald Dowes

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People are so used to having their lives filmed, theyre not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear. – Sade Adu

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