Dan Morgenstern Quotes

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

- Cyril Connolly

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· England

• Darkness
• Ignorance
• Passion

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

- John Mason Brown

Critic

· USA

• Humorous
• Kings

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

- Cyril Connolly

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· England

• Hate
• Literature

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

- Eric Bentley

Critic

· United Kingdom

• Biographies
• Geography
• Maps

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

- Brendan Gill

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· USA

• Art
• Obscenity

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

- Cyril Connolly

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· England

• Clever
• Respect

In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

- Cyril Connolly

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· England

• Believer
• Drink
• Together

To ask too much is the way to be denied all.

- Bathsua Makin

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· England

• Denied

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

- Jerry Saltz

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• Champion
• Mistake

Fear is a belief – beliefs can be changed.

- Abraham Low

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· USA

• Belief
• Changed