A romantic interest in our own sex, not necessarily carried as far as physical experiments, was the intellectual fashion.
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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| Birth: | 10th July, 1903 |
| Death: | 26th November, 1974 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Writer |
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Cyril Vernon Connolly was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon and wrote Enemies of Promise , which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth.
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