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The private terror of the libe...

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

One's condition on marijuana i...

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

In such places as Greenwich Vi...

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

The natural role of twentieth-...

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

The only faithfulness people h...

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Harsh words live in the dungeo...

Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

I am not here only so that the...

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Writer's block is only a failu...

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

One thing I've learned in all ...

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Boredom slays more of existenc...

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

I think it's bad to talk about...

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Mailer's Law: A thing either g...

Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Three miles long and two stree...

Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

The mark of mediocrity is to l...

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

We divorced ourselves from the...

We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

A political convention is afte...

A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

...the indispensable requireme...

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

One of the reasons the English...

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

You have the right to speak yo...

You have the right to speak your mind.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

People who live under fascism ...

People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own...

Norman Mailer 274 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...

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....