Cyril Connolly's Quote - Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child

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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. – 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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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. – Cyril Connolly

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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. – Cyril Connolly

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