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Style: There is something in t...

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Every writer has his favorite ...

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Salome had but seven veils; th...

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

In the modern world, all liter...

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

James Joyce buried himself in ...

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Critics are like ticks on a do...

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

A critic is to an author as a ...

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

The response to my books from ...

The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

The sneakiest form of literary...

The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Vladimir Nabokov was a writer ...

Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

It is always dishonest for a r...

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: ...

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

My notion of a great novel is ...

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

My books always make the best-...

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Some people write to please, t...

Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

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There is a fine art to making ...

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

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Too many American authors have...

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

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In art as in life, form and su...

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

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Great art is never perfect; pe...

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Shakespeare wrote great poetry...

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

Edward Paul Abbey 702 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....