“The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.”
Cyril Connolly
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“The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.”

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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”

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“Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up — execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children.”

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