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• Youth is a period of missed opportunities. -- Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983
• The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. -- Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983
• Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. -- Cyril Connolly
• Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
  -- Cyril Connolly...
• The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Cyril Connolly
• It is always preferable to visit home with a friend.
  Your parents will not be pleased with this plan, because they want you all to themselves and because in the presence of your friend, they will have to act like mature human beings ....
• The more you know the less the better. -- Billy Connolly