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Twentieth century music is li...

Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

The first, indeed the only, r...

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

Whatever part drink may play ...

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

Be glad you're fifty - andTha...

Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers!

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

It scored right away with me ...

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

Wives and such are constantly...

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

He who truly believes he has ...

He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

Your attitude measures up to ...

Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

There was no end to the ways ...

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

Self criticism must be my gui...

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

No wonder people are so horri...

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

He resolved, having done it o...

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

I sometimes feel that more lo...

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

If you can't annoy somebody, ...

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

It is no wonder that people a...

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

Laziness has become the chief...

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

One of the great benefits of ...

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

I don't say that the drunk ma...

I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

How wrong people always were ...

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Kingsley Amis 93 quotes

I've been trying to write for...

I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.

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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...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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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....