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

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Hate
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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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Media
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Other Quotes from
Fear
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The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march. – George W. Bush

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Fear

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without. – Martin Luther

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Fear

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one. – John C. Maxwell

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Fear

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. – Arnold Glasow

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Fear

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mom

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made. – Matt Lucas

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Travel

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before. – Vidal Sassoon

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Art

With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now Im comfortable with money and its comfortable with me. – Diana Ross

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Safety