There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.
Cyril ConnollyIn the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
Cyril ConnollyLiterature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly