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

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

Cyril Connolly
Art, Enemy, Atheism
Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 14

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Cyril Connolly
Christian, Atheism, Poison

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
Civilization, Atheism, Literature

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

Cyril Connolly
Believe, Judgement, Atheism

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Cyril Connolly
God, Atheism, Pessimistic

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

Cyril Connolly
Swim, Wicked, Atheism

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