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Category: Cyril Connolly

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Life, Become, Irrational

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Man, Hate, Child

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

Say, Dare, Will

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

Worst, Vice, Worship

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Book, Know, Country

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

Water, Like, Truest

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Loving, Once, Perfectly

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Sex, Weapon, Female

Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.

writers, writing

In the sex-war thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated but a woman’s desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said we have still to admit with Byron that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty deceit and revenge is set alight it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.

self, self, knowledge