The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

Cyril Connolly
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  1. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]

  2. When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

  3. Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

  4. As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

  5. It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode, ’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer...

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