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I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Pr?s: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Cyril Connolly |

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Reggie Leach |

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You have got to set your self on fire for it.

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Only if ambition had a stink, it would smell like burnt human flesh: the acrid smoke rising from a human pyre of moral combustion.

Go to Quote / Comment | Jeta Buch |