Creative Quotations from . . .
Cyril Connolly
(1903-1974) born on Sep 10
English "journalist, editor, writer". "He edited "Horizon magazine," 1939-50 and wrote "Condemned Playground," 1945."
 
   
F
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

R
"Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality."
A
"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."
N
"If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom."
K
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than write for the public and have no self."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""The Unquiet Grave," pt. 3, 1944."
R: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A: ""The Unquiet Grave," pt. 3, 1944."
N: ""The Unquiet Grave.""
K: ""Turnstile One," ed. V. S. Pritchett."



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