A romantic interest in our own sex, not necessarily carried as far as physical experiments, was the intellectual fashion.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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Birth: | 10th July, 1903 |
Death: | 26th November, 1974 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Writer |
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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