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Cyril Connolly on Writing

1903–1974 England

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

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.

Enemies of Promise (1938)

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