Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
From Cyril Connolly
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
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