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The English language is like a...

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

M is for Marx
And clashin...

M is for Marx
And clashing of classes
And movement of masses
And massing of asses.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The civilized are those who ge...

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Green leaves on a dead tree is...

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The only way for writers to me...

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The goal of every culture is t...

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The man who is master of his p...

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

We may assume that we keep peo...

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

There is no suicide for which ...

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

When even despair ceases to se...

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

No one can achieve Serenity un...

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The disasters of the world are...

The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The only happy talkers are dan...

The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

A writer is in danger of allow...

A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.

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.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The more I see of life the mor...

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

We cannot be happy until we ca...

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Nothing dates like hate and in...

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Were I to deduce any system fr...

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 241 quotes

Poets arguing about modern poe...

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

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...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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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...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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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....