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Old money is fully as moronic ...

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

Being abroad makes you conscio...

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

I suppose everyone continues t...

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

The immense popularity of Amer...

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

The labor of keeping house is ...

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

For self-realization, a rebel ...

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

Life for the European is a car...

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

To care for the quarrels of th...

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

People with bad consciences al...

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

I was going to get myself reco...

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

The consumer today is the vict...

The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

In morals as in politics anarc...

In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

it came to me, as we sat there...

it came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

The return to a favorite novel...

The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

The erotic element always pres...

The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

The comic element is the incor...

The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

Maybe any action becomes cowar...

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

most people did not care to be...

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

Whenever in history, equality ...

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

Any sizeable Portuguese town l...

Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

Mary McCarthy 155 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...

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...

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....