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The publishers and others shou...

The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

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Television is really what we'v...

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

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She had eyes like strange sins...

She had eyes like strange sins.

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The most durable thing in writ...

The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.

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Mostly I just kill time,' he ...

Mostly I just kill time,' he said, 'and it dies hard.

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The coffee shop smell was stro...

The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.

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Most people go through life us...

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had

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The truth of art keeps science...

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

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He sounded like a man who had ...

He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

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The modern film tries too hard...

The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

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The dilemma of the critic has ...

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.

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The perfect detective story ca...

The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce the artistic job of writing.

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Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone...

Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.

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You can always tell a detectiv...

You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

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The plants filled the place, a...

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

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The average detective story is...

The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average -- or only slightly above average -- detective story does.... Whereas the good novel is not at all the same kind of book as the bad novel. It is about entirely different things. But the good detective story and the bad detective story are about exactly the same things, and they are about them in very much the same way.

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The best way to find out if yo...

The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

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When a book, any sort of book,...

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.

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There was a sad fellow over on...

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.

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There ain't no clean way to ma...

There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.

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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...

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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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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....