Thus tea, coffee, alcohol stimulate. So do heights, wet day… - Cyril Connolly

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Thus tea, coffee, alcohol stimulate.
So do heights, wet days, south-west gales, hotel bedrooms in Paris and windows overlooking harbours. Also snow, frost, the electric bell outside a cinema at night, sex-life and fever.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English author, editor and critic.

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