“Editing a magazine is perhaps the only occupation in which my lack of belief in anything or anyone, and my ambivalence, my passionate belief in the BOTH, can be turned to advantage. In a writer this causes sterility, in an editor it is called ‘readiness to give the other side a hearing.’ I believe in god the Either, god the Or, and god the Holy Both.”
Cyril Connolly, unpublished notebook entry (1941)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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