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With the pride of the artist,...

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Once a newspaper touches a st...

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

The difference between writin...

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

There is no greater impotence...

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Being a real writer means bei...

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

There's that popular misconce...

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Over the years, I've found on...

Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to pick up such valuables at a given time. Count on me, you are saying to a few forces below: I will be there to write.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

We live in a time which has c...

We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Crude thoughts and fierce for...

Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Madness is locked beneath. It...

Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is thegrowth of madness denied.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

There is a no man's land betw...

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

You don't know a woman until ...

You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

There are these two kinds of ...

There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy and it's very important for the health and the life of this democracy that it get better all the time, not get worse.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

It's very bad to write a nove...

It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, I know I can do it. But a novel is different. A novel is more like falling in love. You don't say, 'I'm going to fall in love next Tuesday, I'm going to begin my novel.' The novel has to come to you. It has to feel just like love.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

The paradox is that no love c...

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

If a person is not talented e...

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

In America all too few blows ...

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Sentimentality is the emotion...

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

I'm hostile to men, I'm hosti...

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

I am not here only so that th...

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

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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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....