Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

Famous Quotes / Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly: "Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual."

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Adolescence	Adolescent	Analysis	Arrest
Boys	Called	Class	Cowardly
Deduce	Development	Disappointments	Dominate
Eton	Experiences	Feelings	Glories
Great	Greater	Homosexual	Intense
Last	Leaving	Lives	Might
Part	Permanent	Public	Remains
Results	Ruling	Schoolminded	Schools
Selfconscious	Sentimental	System	Theory
These	Undergone

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Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual. - Cyril Connolly