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• Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
  -- Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave" 1945...
• Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk. -- Cyril Connolly
• We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
  -- Cyril Connolly...
• Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
  -- Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983...
• Planet's Primary, Alpha Centauri A, blasts unimaginable quantities of energy into space each instant, and virtually every joule of it is wasted entirely.
  Incomprehensible riches can be ours if we can but stretch our arms wide enough to dip from this eternal river of wealth....
• Tamarian mugger: Timbir, his arms up, NOW!
• The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow subject races to possess arms.
  .. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so....
• The Arkansas legislature passed a law that states that the Arkansas River can rise no higher than to the Main Street bridge in Little Rock.