Only By Avoiding The Beginning Of Things Can We Escape Their End. -- Cyril Connolly

Only By Avoiding The Beginning Of Things Can We Escape Their End. -- Cyril Connolly

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Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.
-- Cyril Connolly

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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk. -- Cyril Connolly
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. -- Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983
The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Cyril Connolly
Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. -- Cyril Connolly
Youth is a period of missed opportunities. -- Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983
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All government programs have three things in common: a beginning, a muddle, and no end.