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Cyril Connolly was an English literary critic, novelist, and man of letters.
He was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, in 1903.
He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.
He began his career as a literary journalist in the 1920s.
He founded and edited the literary magazine Horizon from 1939 to 1950.
He wrote several novels, including The Rock Pool (1936) and The Unquiet Grave (1944).
He was also the author of several works of criticism, including Enemies of Promise (1938).
He died in London in 1974.

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

Cyril Connolly

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