"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
-Cyril Connolly
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"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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"The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."
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"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."
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"Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
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"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."
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"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving."
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