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If a man's imagination were no...

If a man's imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.

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The night I filled an inside s...

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

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When riding my old Harley a ni...

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

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It's true: Every time you kill...

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

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Tee Vee football: one team win...

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

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Music begins where words leave...

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

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How did Haydn and Mozart produ...

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

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If there's anything I hate, it...

If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.

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The critics say that Shostakov...

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

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As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wa...

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

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Opera: I like it, except for a...

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

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Grand opera is a form of music...

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

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The best argument for Christia...

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

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Reincarnation? There is such a...

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

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Simplicity is always a virtue....

Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

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Music endures and ages far bet...

Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.

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Mozart, striving for perfectio...

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In ...

Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'

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In everything but brains and b...

In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

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Married couples who quarrel bi...

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

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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....