The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
-- Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983
-- Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983
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- Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
-- Cyril Connolly,
"Journal and Memoir"... - Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones
who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir"... - Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.
Cyril... - Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.
Cyril... - Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the
public and have no self.
Cyril... - Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we
have learnt to walk.
Cyril... - We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it
with passion,
if we want to be happy. -- Cyril... - The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage,
so we get married. Cyril... - COBOL is not dead,
it just smells that way...
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- You are lucky this is not a Klingon ship. We know how to deal with spies.
Worf to Setal/Jarok, "The Defector", stardate 43462... - From uucp Mon Dec 3 21
05:46... - There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
Bertrand... - The President publicly apologized today to all those offended by his
brother's remark,
"There's more Arabs in this country than there is Jews... - Remember,
the current burger wars are making tacos cheap...
