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Merely to live without a pain...

Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

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Fate and victory shift ... no...

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

Dan Simmons 113 quotes

I think all the simple things...

I think all the simple things can and do still work - holding your child's hand while walking across the street will do it. But we can hardly hear it for all the noise which has turned love into a cliche, and most people can't even hear John Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" anymore without wincing.

Dan Simmons 113 quotes

Pain is an interesting and of...

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

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It started 25 years ago, when...

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

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The truth is, it's not a grea...

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

Dan Simmons 113 quotes

Movie SF is, by definition, d...

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

Dan Simmons 113 quotes

I loved almost everything abo...

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

Dan Simmons 113 quotes

As long as my sixth graders s...

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.

Dan Simmons 113 quotes

There's a unique bond of trus...

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

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No one inspired me to write, ...

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

Dan Simmons 113 quotes

I knew that I wanted to be a ...

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

Dan Simmons 113 quotes

Writing, I'm convinced, shoul...

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Dan Simmons 113 quotes

It's one of the strangest att...

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Dan Simmons 113 quotes

A token of ecological awarene...

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

Dan Simmons 113 quotes

Mystery. The strangeness of p...

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

Dan Simmons 113 quotes

Any allegiance to a deity or ...

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

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I know what cancer was. How i...

I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Dur?. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.

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Wilkie Collins was a rival an...

Wilkie Collins was a rival and competitor of Dickens. His novel Moonstone sold more copies at the time than Dickens' last two books. But that meant nothing in the long run. Right now, to be honest, Wilkie Collins is what he deserved to be back then: a footnote, an almost lost memory. And he knew he would become that.

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You treat violence as an aber...

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

Dan Simmons 113 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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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...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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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...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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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....