Cyril Connolly on Youth

(“Youth is wasted on the young,” as the old saying goes. So is college. Cyril Connolly puts this a bit more gently here.)

“Youth is a period of missed opportunities.”

Cyril Connolly

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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