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Cyril Connolly

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born

September 10, 1903 in Coventry, Warwickshire, The United Kingdom

died

November 26, 1984

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male

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Literature & Fiction

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Cyril Connolly was born in Coventry, Warwickshire in 1903. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford he was a regular contributor to the New Statesman in the 1930s.

Connolly also co-edited Horizon (1939-41) with Stephen Spender and later was literary editor of the The Observer. Books by Connolly include the novel, The Rock Pool (1938), the autobiographical, Enemies of Promise (1938) and The Unquiet Grave (1944), a collection of aphorisms, reflections and essays.

After the Second World War Connolly was the principal book reviewer of the Sunday Times. He also published several other books including The Condemned Playground (1945), Previous Convictions (1964) and the Modern Movement (1965). Cyril Connolly died in 1974.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 226 ratings · 33 reviews · 22 distinct works

	The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus 3.98 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1945 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Enemies of Promise 3.75 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1938 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Rock Pool by Cyril Connolly, Peter Quennell (Introduction) 3.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1947 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Condemned Playground: Essays, 1927 1944 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1945 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Evening Colonnade 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Selected Works Of Cyril Connolly: The Modern Movement by Cyril Connolly, Connolly 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Selected Essays 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Selected Works Of Cyril Connolly. 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Shade Those Laurels by Cyril Connolly, Peter Levi 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Cien Libros Clave Del Movimiento Moderno, 1880 1950 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”
― Cyril Connolly

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“There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.”
― Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus

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“While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”
― Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus

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