Cyril Connolly Quotes
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Connolly, Cyril. The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus. Horizon, 1944.
As a refugee from Communist Europe where history and memory constantly affect the lives of people for centuries if not millennia, he became a forward thinking individual and wanted to avoid people being mired in the past.
Most ultra-conservatives worship the Past, but of course the past cares not.
Cyril Vernon Connolly was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–49) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth.
