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I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so. — John Connolly

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. — Cyril Connolly

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator. — Cyril Connolly

I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days. — Billy Connolly

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire. — John Connolly

When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here? — Billy Connolly

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. — Cyril Connolly

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes. — Billy Connolly

They were the clothes of a child, and he was a child no longer. — John Connolly

People die all the time. It's just that you're not around. — Billy Connolly

I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning ... That can keep me awake for days.. — Billy Connolly

If you work at home, you're always on call in a way. — John Connolly

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. — Cyril Connolly

If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name? — Billy Connolly

When I started in homicide, the Dead Sea was just sick. — John Connolly

He thought of the old commonplace about how giving up vices didn't make you live longer, but just made it feel as though you were living longer. — John Connolly

It was the kind of bar where everybody knew your name, as long as your name was 'Motherfucker'. — John Connolly

If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity. — John Connolly

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom. — Cyril Connolly

The thing that everyone liked about 'Entourage' is that these are fish-out-of-water guys living this dream. — Kevin Connolly

All presented one face to the world, and kept another hidden. Nobody could survive in it otherwise. — John Connolly

She was a round, curvy woman who, for Parker, brought to mind a figure assembled from a selection of soft fruits. Aside — John Connolly

Was that his name? I never had a chance to ask. He was too intent upon tearing out my throat for us to engage in idle chitchat. — John Connolly

Where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them. — John Connolly

On the day of the funeral he had stood behind me in the rain and let the water wash over him, the drops falling from the brim of his hat like tears — John Connolly

Er lips were as red as a stop light.. — John Connolly

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God. — Cyril Connolly

The best businesses adopt a similar approach to Google. They are consistently looking for ways to improve what they do. — Jim Connolly

When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'. — Billy Connolly

Behold not Death's Heads til thou doest not see them, nor look upon mortifying objects til thou overlook'st them. — John Connolly

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel. — Cyril Connolly

I'm not a player! I'm the girlfriend type! I always have girlfriends. — Kevin Connolly

A discarded newspaper skimmed the sidewalk with a sound like the whisperings of a dead lover. — John Connolly

Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink. — John Connolly

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer — John Connolly

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly

Hair and make-up people don't get enough credit for what they do. It's not just making people look good. It's really creating the character. — Kristen Connolly

chased by the shadows of clouds. — John Connolly

I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home. — Billy Connolly

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker. — Kevin Connolly

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. — Cyril Connolly

It's a full-time job being homeless. It's a full-time job being poor. — John Connolly

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it. — Stephanie Connolly

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

The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland — James Connolly

Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit. — Billy Connolly

Fuck the begrudgers — Billy Connolly

In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to. — John Connolly

Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. — Cyril Connolly

Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a haemorrhoid when it's on the outside of your ass? — Billy Connolly

That's the thing - I've never really been single. I always end up in a relationship immediately. — Kevin Connolly

I'll stop at nothing less than you — Finbar Connolly

Stories always seem to get better with age. — Kevin Connolly

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things. — Billy Connolly

When she was taken from me it was like the death of a world, an infinite number of futures coming to an end. — John Connolly

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils. — Cyril Connolly

I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick."
"It's late for that, Puck. — Maggie Stiefvater

The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour — James Connolly

I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound. — Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in. — Billy Connolly

M is for Marx
And clashing of classes
And movement of masses
And massing of asses. — Cyril Connolly

Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn't too nice a thing to do. — Billy Connolly

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. — Mike Connolly

If you haven't heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one. — Billy Connolly

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's. — John Connolly

Now that it's time to leave, I'm not sure I wan to go. — John Connolly

To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible. — Maureen Connolly

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. — Cyril Connolly

I'm a nostalgic guy. — Kevin Connolly

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist. — John Connolly

Believe me, I've taken a lot of heat for my mustache. — Kevin Connolly

Lester Bargus was what people liked to call 'two pounds of shit in a one-pound bag. — John Connolly

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center. — Cyril Connolly

Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else" — Billy Connolly

He has all the weaknesses that come with a conscience, but none of the strengths. — John Connolly

Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. — Cyril Connolly

Funny, that. For so long Wormwood had desired the throne and then, when he'd had it, it hadn't been worth desiring after all. — John Connolly

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. — Cyril Connolly

Okay, I said hoarsely as the blood left my head and headed south for the winter. — John Connolly

Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways. — Billy Connolly

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree. — John Connolly

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. — Cyril Connolly

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying. — Billy Connolly

I learned something that day: there may be worse things than arriving somewhere with your dog and leaving without him, but there aren't many. — John Connolly

I don't aim to offend. — Billy Connolly

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us. — Cyril Connolly

The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think. — Billy Connolly

Life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life! — Billy Connolly

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry. — Cyril Connolly

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind. — Kevin Connolly

[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here — Billy Connolly

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible. — Cyril Connolly

Although both were lost in their own individual worlds, they shared the same space and time. — John Connolly

Law and justice are not the same. — John Connolly

Deborah Mercier couldn't have looked more like a WASP if her coat had been striped with yellow and her eyes had been on the sides of her head. She — John Connolly

I've always thought the expression 'passion project' was kind of a cliche until I started working on 'Big Shot' for 'ESPN.' — Kevin Connolly

The Islanders and their owner, Garth Snow, were very generous with me and let me do some cool stuff inside the organization. — Kevin Connolly

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is. — Billy Connolly

If you listen hard enough, there's almost no such thing as silence: there's just noise that isn't very loud yet. — John Connolly