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Cyril Connolly Quotes: Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
         

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.


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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.



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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.



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



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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.



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This page presents the quote "Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.". Author of this quote is Cyril Connolly. This quote is about reality, absent, nostalgia, past, liquid, imagination, art,.