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13535 quotesIdleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Idleness
Cyril Connolly
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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
Men and Women
Cyril Connolly
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
Arts and Artists
Cyril Connolly
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Marriage
Cyril Connolly
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The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Food and Eating
Cyril Connolly
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The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
Reason
Cyril Connolly
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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Wives
Cyril Connolly
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Solitude
Cyril Connolly
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
Suicide
Cyril Connolly
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.
Vulgarity
Cyril Connolly
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
Prison
Cyril Connolly
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Talent
Cyril Connolly
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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Humor
Joseph Conrad
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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
Secrets
Joseph Conrad
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Critics and Criticism
Joseph Conrad
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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Courage
Joseph Conrad
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It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
Wine
Joseph Conrad
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Sea
Joseph Conrad
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
Army and Navy
Joseph Conrad
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Words
Joseph Conrad
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Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.
Necessity
Sir Terence Conran
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Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.
Education
Eliza Cook
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Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
Memory
Eliza Cook
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Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
Deeds and Good Deeds
Eliza Cook
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Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
Trust
Eliza Cook
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun