Skip to main content

Our suicidal poets (Plath, Ber...

Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Great art is indefinable but t...

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Why the critics, like a flock ...

Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

It is not the writer's task to...

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

A good writer must have more t...

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Chastity is more a state of mi...

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

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.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

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.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

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.'

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

In everything but brains and b...

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

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

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.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

In marriage, the occasional ca...

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

I've wrecked and ravaged half ...

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Women: We cannot love them all...

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Girls: I never wanted them all...

Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

I, too, believe in fidelity. B...

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

If we had the power of ten Sha...

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Motherhood is an essential, di...

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

A woman, as much as a man, is ...

A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never m...

How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

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

83

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

115

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

219

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

541

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

165

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....