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A soul is a troublesome posses...

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

There is nothing so terrible a...

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

When you're eighteen your emot...

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Art is a manifestation of emot...

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Advice to first year medical s...

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The novel may stimulate you to...

The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The well dressed man is he who...

The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Excess on occasion is exhilara...

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

We are like people living in a...

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

You are not angry with people ...

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The good traveler has the gift...

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

An author spends months writin...

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

A writer need not devour a who...

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

First, cut out all the wisdom,...

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Marco Polo tells the tale of T...

Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

No author can create a charact...

No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Illusions are like umbrellas -...

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Refecting on the high divorce ...

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England 'American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I want a girl because I want t...

I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. IВґm not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

You must not pursue a success,...

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

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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.
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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....