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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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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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. – 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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