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• The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. -- Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983
• Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
  -- Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983...
• Youth is a period of missed opportunities without the glory of knowing what was missed.
• Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end. -- Cyril Connolly
• Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. -- Cyril Connolly
• Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
  -- Cyril Connolly...
• Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk. -- Cyril Connolly
• We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
  -- Cyril Connolly...
• The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Cyril Connolly