A romantic interest in our own sex, not necessarily carried as far as physical experiments, was the intellectual fashion.
Cyril Connolly Quotes
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.
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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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