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Oops, I thought. Oops is an al...

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.

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The opposite of the happy endi...

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

Orson Scott Card 529 quotes

The only people who ever prize...

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

Orson Scott Card 529 quotes

I need you to be clever, Bean....

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Orson Scott Card 529 quotes

Home is anywhere that you know...

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

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Peter, you're twelve years old...

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

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An eye for an eye? How Christi...

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

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Anything can become a children...

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

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We don't read novels to have a...

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

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Oh no, real life is escape. Th...

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

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What a waste of time to be pos...

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

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When you have a good romance, ...

When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.

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One bachelor is an irritation....

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

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If desire did not dim the brai...

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

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Oh, I'll live Ender's life, to...

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own.' ~Val

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You know how writers are... th...

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

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Mom,' said Peter, 'nobody th...

Mom,' said Peter, 'nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about.' Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

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Where loyalty bound creatures ...

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

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Personal humiliation was painf...

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

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But the truth is that no perso...

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

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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...

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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...

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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....