A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail grow indispensable. Cyril Connolly
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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Joseph Campbell
Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.
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Unknown
If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .
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Unknown
I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.
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Unknown
Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics, humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong.
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Unknown
More Quotes By Cyril Connolly
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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...
