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The first breath of adultery i...

The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

John Updike 387 quotes

We are most alive when we're i...

We are most alive when we're in love.

John Updike 387 quotes

Most of American life consists...

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

John Updike 387 quotes

The essence of government is c...

The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.

John Updike 387 quotes

New York is of course many cit...

New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.

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The New England spirit does no...

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.

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Movies are, like sharp sunligh...

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

John Updike 387 quotes

As I get older, my childhood s...

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

John Updike 387 quotes

We all begin life as parasites...

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

John Updike 387 quotes

Within your own generation-the...

Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.

John Updike 387 quotes

All men are mortal, and theref...

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

John Updike 387 quotes

Those running tights the young...

Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right into the crack between the buttocks, what is the point of them? Display. Young animals need to display.

John Updike 387 quotes

I never made a decision in my ...

I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.

John Updike 387 quotes

What more fiendish proof of co...

What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?

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Of plants tomatoes seemed the ...

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

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The scissors cut the long-grow...

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

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When you look into a mirror it...

When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW rorrim a otni ton si ti Л›ees uoy flesruoy dnik a tub rorre hsipa fo lufraef ni desop yrtemmys

John Updike 387 quotes

In general, the churches, visi...

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

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It's spring! Farewell To chi...

It's spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sodЂ' Small letters sent To her from God.

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Appealingness is inversely pro...

Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

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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...

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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...

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....