Connolly

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    Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their lustre.
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that there are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)