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

Other quotes by Cyril Connolly

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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Corruption
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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are – like fishes not meant to swim. – Cyril Connolly

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Body, the
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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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Exile
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You are the one giving fear a leg to stand on. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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Fear is a huge thing for older people. – James Hillman

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Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. – Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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I cant understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God thats not religion, thats not helping humanity, thats organizing an army to defeat somebody. – Mojo Nixon

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