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What has a writer to be bomba...

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

A painter can hang his pictur...

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Men are too unstable to be ju...

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

The earnings of a poet could ...

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

I know sage, wormwood, and hy...

I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Look at this poet William Car...

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Man pines to live but cannot ...

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Man is at the nadir of his st...

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a ...

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

The ruin of the human heart i...

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

We are always talking about b...

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Woman is the most superstitio...

Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Intellectual sodomy, which co...

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Those who write for lucre or ...

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

One cat in a house is a sign ...

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Look at this poet William Carl...

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a g...

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

What is most appalling in an F...

What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Of all the animals on earth, n...

Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Writing is conscience, scruple...

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Edward Dahlberg 102 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...

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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....