Cyril ConnollyThinkers

The Absent is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Aging is the bringer of a serenity not achievable until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

The Artist is one who secretes nostalgia around life.

The Artist is tasked to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

The Author is one who arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.

Beauty beautiful women must think about as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities. It is all they have to insure their places in the world.

Being civilized is getting more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this the civilized are not likely to be forgiven.

The Body is denied at every turn as wrong and wicked. It is a view that sees us like fishes not meant to swim.

The Butcher is, along with the policeman, a repressed sadist.

Character 1s 2rue index in a man is the health of his wife.