Сирил Коннолли цитаты

„Хозяин своих страстей — раб своего рассудка.“

—  Сирил Коннолли

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

—  Сирил Коннолли

„Страх одиночества сильнее, чем страх рабства, поэтому мы женимся.“

—  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

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

—  Сирил Коннолли

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

—  Сирил Коннолли

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

—  Сирил Коннолли

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

—  Сирил Коннолли

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

—  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

„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 birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; — such is our personality.“

—  Cyril Connolly, книга The Unquiet Grave

Part I: Ecce Gubernator (p. 20)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Контексте: A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settle there, and soon birds have made a nest and are feeding their young among the blossoming water plants. Then the river rises and the earth is washed away. The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; — such is our personality.

„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.“

—  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.

„Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price.“

—  Cyril Connolly, книга The Unquiet Grave

Part III: La Clé des Chants (p. 93)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Контексте: Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.

„Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.“

—  Cyril Connolly, книга The Unquiet Grave

Part III: La Clé des Chants (p.103)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Контексте: There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

„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.