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From the ruins, lonely and ine...

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

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Reporting the extreme things a...

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

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the growth of intimacy is like...

the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humour. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third Ђ' before long the best lines cancel out Ђ' and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to o

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But he hated to be sober. It m...

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down . There was kindliness about intoxication Ђ' there was the indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings

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So we'll just let things take ...

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

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It was only a sunny smile, and...

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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You will walk differently alon...

You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

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A stirring warmth flowed from ...

A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

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Something was making him nibbl...

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

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At the enchanted metropolitan ...

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

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He had angered Providence by r...

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

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Over the great bridge, with th...

Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

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Nancy had a mouth like a remem...

Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss...

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Girls like you are responsible...

Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!

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The things that'll make you fa...

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

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It's a great advantage not to ...

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

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I felt that I wanted the world...

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

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I'm a cynical idealist....

I'm a cynical idealist.

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Want any of this stuff? Jordan...

Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?' I didn't answer. Nick?' he asked again. What?' Want any?' No... I just remembered that today's my birthday.' I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

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What are you going to do? 'Ca...

What are you going to do? 'Can't say - run for president, write -' 'Greenwich Village?' 'Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.

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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...

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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...

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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....