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Intellectuals can tell themse...

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

Decision by democratic majori...

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

Drinking makes uninteresting ...

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

Nobody knows what you want ex...

Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

as one grows older, one reali...

as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

Courtesy is breeding. Breedin...

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

Childhood is less clear to me...

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

I'm too old to recover, too n...

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

We all lead more pedestrian l...

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

failure in the theater is mor...

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

A theme is always necessary, ...

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

You can always spot clothes m...

You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

If you are willing to take th...

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

It was an unspoken pleasure, ...

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

The past, with its pleasures,...

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

Rebels seldom make good revol...

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

Was it always my nature to ta...

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

Decisions, particularly impor...

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

I cannot and will not cut my ...

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

Lillian Hellman 124 quotes

The writer's intention hasn't...

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

Lillian Hellman 124 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...

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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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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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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....