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Many writers who choose to be...

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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In the German concentration c...

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

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There's a lot to be said for ...

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

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My father once said something...

My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'

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History is nothing but gossip...

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

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Americans have no idea of the...

Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.

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It is the spirit of the age t...

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

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In America, the race goes to ...

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

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The theater needs continual r...

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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Fifty percent of people won't...

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

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It is a paradox of the acquis...

It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.

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As a schoolboy, I read most o...

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

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Until very recently, the arti...

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

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The only thing that I react r...

The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.

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What is in question is a kind...

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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After the French Revolution, ...

After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.

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For every Scott Fitzgerald co...

For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down.

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It is true, as Sartre once wr...

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.

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Baseball is the favorite Amer...

Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.

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Sex is. There is nothing more...

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

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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...

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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....