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The first breath of adultery ...

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

John Updike 387 quotes

It is in middles that extreme...

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

John Updike 387 quotes

The essential support and enc...

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

John Updike 387 quotes

The dwelling places of Europe...

The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.

John Updike 387 quotes

Writing criticism is to writi...

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike 387 quotes

Professionalism in art has th...

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

John Updike 387 quotes

Dreams come true; without tha...

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike 387 quotes

The essential self is innocen...

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

John Updike 387 quotes

When I was born, my parents a...

When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me.

John Updike 387 quotes

To be President of the United...

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

John Updike 387 quotes

Golf appeals to the idiot in ...

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

John Updike 387 quotes

I didn't need to write histor...

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.

John Updike 387 quotes

A house, having been willfull...

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.

John Updike 387 quotes

Any activity becomes creative...

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

John Updike 387 quotes

The Founding Fathers in their...

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike 387 quotes

Does fiction, artistic writin...

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

John Updike 387 quotes

There's something very reassu...

There's something very reassuring... about the written record.

John Updike 387 quotes

To be a human being is to be ...

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

John Updike 387 quotes

A leader is one who, out of m...

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

John Updike 387 quotes

A healthy male adult bore con...

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

John Updike 387 quotes

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...

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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...

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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....