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Men are too unstable to be jus...

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

A strong foe is better than a ...

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

So much of our lives is given ...

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Herman Melville was as separat...

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Genius, like truth, has a shab...

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Recognize the cunning man not ...

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Hardly a book of human worth, ...

Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

Man is at the nadir of his str...

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

We are uneasy with an affectio...

We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

The earnings of a poet could b...

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

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

The machine has had a pernicio...

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

I would rather take hellebore ...

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

Edward Dahlberg 102 quotes

We can only write well about o...

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

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

The ruin of the human heart is...

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

Intellectual sodomy, which com...

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

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...

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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....