Cyril Connolly quotes.

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but the middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

"No city should be so large that a man cannot walk out of it in a morning.

"Inside every fat man, there is a thin man struggling to get out.

"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

"Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.

"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts forth, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts, and to second-rate friends.

"Perfect taste always implies an insolent dismissal of other people's.

" We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.