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Failure on the other hand is i...

Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Miserable Orpheus who, turning...

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

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Flaubert spoke true: to succee...

Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.

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No-one was ever made wretched ...

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

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The lesson one can learn from ...

The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

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From now on - specialize; neve...

From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.

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There cannot be a personal God...

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

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What grape to keep its place i...

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

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The American language is in a ...

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

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Two weeks before his death, a ...

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. 'Yes,' he replied, 'there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.'

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Everyone has the right to expr...

Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.

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There is no pain equal to that...

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

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Civilization is an active depo...

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Pr?s: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Pa

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English Law: where there are t...

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

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Most people do not believe in ...

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

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Obesity is a mental state, a d...

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

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Imagination is nostalgia for t...

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

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There are only three things wh...

There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

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A woman's desire for revenge o...

A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

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In a perfect union the man and...

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....