Сирил Коннолли цитаты

„Хозяин своих страстей — раб своего рассудка.“

—  Сирил Коннолли

„Долголетие — это месть таланта гению.“

—  Сирил Коннолли

„О характере мужчины лучше всего свидетельствует здоровье его жены.“

—  Сирил Коннолли

„Лучше писать для себя и лишиться читателя, чем писать для читателя и лишиться себя.“

—  Сирил Коннолли

„Тот, у кого люди вызывают любопытство, а не любовь, должен писать афоризм, а не романы.“

—  Сирил Коннолли

„Литературная репутация тонет в волне успеха. Реклама, спрос, ажиотаж — всё это оборачивается против книги, её автора.“

—  Сирил Коннолли

„Нет боли сильнее, чем та, что причиняют друг другу влюбленные.“

—  Сирил Коннолли

„Крупный писатель создает свой собственный мир, и его читатели гордятся, что живут в этом мире. Писатель посредственный тоже может залучить читателей в свой мирок, но очень скоро он увидит, как они, один за другим, потянутся к выходу.“

—  Сирил Коннолли

„Литература — это то, что читается дважды; журналистика — один раз.“

—  Сирил Коннолли

„Наши воспоминания — это картотека, которой однажды воспользовались, а затем разбросали как попало…“

—  Сирил Коннолли

„Секрет журналистики: писать так, как говорят люди. Не обязательно то, что говорят, но ничего такого, чего бы не говорили.“

—  Сирил Коннолли

„В каждом толстом человеке сидит худой и требует, чтобы его выпустили.“

—  Сирил Коннолли

„It is by a blend of lively curiosity and intelligent selfishness that the artists who wish to mature late, who feel too old to die, the Goethes, Tolstoys, Voltaires, Titians and Verdis, reach a fruitful senescence. They cannot afford to associate with those who are burning themselves up or preparing for a tragedy or whom melancholy has marked for her own. Not for them the accident-prone, the friend in whom the desire for self-destruction keeps blistering out in broken legs or threatening them in anxiety-neuroses. Not for them the drumming finger, the close-cropt nail, the chewed glasses, the pause on the threshold, the wandering eye, or the repeated ‘um’ and ‘er.“

—  Cyril Connolly, книга Enemies of Promise

Источник: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 16: Outlook Unsettled (p. 137)

„Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.“

—  Cyril Connolly, книга The Unquiet Grave

Part II: Te Palinure Petens (p. 70)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)

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

—  Cyril Connolly

The New Statesman (1933-02-25)

„While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.“

—  Cyril Connolly

Источник: The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus

„The Mandarin style at its best yields the richest and most complete expression of the English language.“

—  Cyril Connolly, книга Enemies of Promise

Источник: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 3: The Challenge to the Mandarins (p. 17-18)
Контексте: The Mandarin style at its best yields the richest and most complete expression of the English language. It is the diction of Donne, Browne, Addison, Johnson, Gibbon, de Quincey, Landor, Carlyle and Ruskin as opposed to that of Bunyan, Dryden, Locke, Defoe, Cowper, Cobbett, Hazlitt, Southey and Newman. It is characterized by long sentences with many dependent clauses, by the use of the subjunctive and conditional, by exclamations and interjections, quotations, allusions, metaphors, long images, Latin terminology, subtlety and conceits. Its cardinal assumption is that neither the writer nor the reader is in a hurry, that both are possessed of a classical education and a private income. It is Ciceronian English.

„A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting.“

—  Cyril Connolly, книга The Unquiet Grave

Part II: Te Palinure Petens (p.64)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Контексте: A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant or ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. Neurotics are heartless.

„The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.“

—  Cyril Connolly, книга The Unquiet Grave

Part III: La Clé des Chants (p. 98)
Variant: 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.
As quoted in The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) compiled by Rhoda Thomas Tripp. This version has also appeared in earlier published sources<!-- The American journal Imago of the Association for Applied Psychoanalysis published by Johns Hopkins University Press (c. 1958?)-->, but it may be a misquotation.
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Контексте: Ridiculous as may seem the dualities of conflict at a given time, it does not follow that dualism is a worthless process. The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.