Showing posts with label ENEMIES OF PROMISE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ENEMIES OF PROMISE. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Quote of the Day (Cyril Connolly, on Why ‘Writing is a More Impure Art Than Music or Painting’)


“Writing is a more impure art than music or painting. It is an art, but it is also the medium in which millions of inartistic people express themselves, describe their work, sell their goods, justify their conduct, propagate their ideas. It is the vehicle of all business and propaganda.” — English essayist, novelist, and editor Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)

Thursday, June 6, 2019

Quote of the Day (Cyril Connolly, on Education and Concentration)


“No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.”— English essayist, novelist, and editor Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Quote of the Day (Cyril Connolly, on Education and Concentration)


“No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.”—Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)