“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”

— Cyril Connolly , book Enemies of Promise

Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 14: The Charlock’s Shade (p. 116)

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