{"author":"Cyril Connolly","author_id":"Cyril+Connolly","total_quotes":50,"quotes":[{"text":"Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.","author":"Cyril Connolly","tags":["poets","poetry"],"id":4605,"author_id":"Cyril+Connolly"},{"text":"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.","author":"Cyril Connolly","tags":["loving","once","perfectly "],"id":13570,"author_id":"Cyril+Connolly"},{"text":"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.","author":"Cyril Connolly","tags":["literature","reading","writing"],"id":27756,"author_id":"Cyril+Connolly"},{"text":"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.","author":"Cyril Connolly","tags":["writing","journalism "],"id":29860,"author_id":"Cyril+Connolly"},{"text":"Two fears alternate in marriage, of loneliness and of bondage. The dread of loneliness being keener than the fear of bondage, we get married. For one person who fears being thus tied there are four who dread being set free. Yet the love of liberty is a noble passion and one to which most married people secretly aspire, -- in moments when they are not neurotically dependent -- but by then it is too late; the ox does not become a bull, not the hen a falcon.The fear of loneliness can be overcome, for it springs from weakness; human beings are intended to be free, and to be free is to be lonely, but the fear of bondage is the apprehension of a real danger, and so I find it all the more pathetic to watch young men and beautiful girls taking refuge in marriage from an imaginary danger, a sad loss to their friends ad a sore trial to each other. First love is the one most worth having, yet the best marriage is often the second, for we should marry only when the desire for freedom be spent; not till then does a man know whether he is the kind who can settle down. The most tragic breakings-up are of those couples who have married young and who have enjoyed seven years of happiness, after which the banked fires of passion and independence explode -- and without knowing why, for they still love each other, they set about accomplishing their common destruction.","author":"Cyril Connolly","tags":["freedom","loneliness","love","marriage"],"id":33640,"author_id":"Cyril+Connolly"},{"text":"Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.","author":"Cyril Connolly","tags":["courage"],"id":40868,"author_id":"Cyril+Connolly"},{"text":"Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.","author":"Cyril Connolly","tags":["pressure","diamonds"],"id":56850,"author_id":"Cyril+Connolly"},{"text":"When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.","author":"Cyril Connolly","tags":["writing"],"id":59441,"author_id":"Cyril+Connolly"},{"text":"A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion  for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.","author":"Cyril Connolly","tags":["reason"],"id":62135,"author_id":"Cyril+Connolly"},{"text":"The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.","author":"Cyril Connolly","tags":["life","calm","harmony "],"id":71628,"author_id":"Cyril+Connolly"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}