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Some American delusions: 1) Th...

Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I forget who it was that recom...

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Of all these the richest in be...

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

If nobody spoke unless he had ...

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The secret of play-writing can...

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Words have weight, sound and a...

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

A good style should show no si...

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Most people are such fools tha...

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Success. I don't believe it ha...

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The trouble is that thinking l...

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Sherry, the civilized drink....

Sherry, the civilized drink.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Has it occurred to you that tr...

Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

If only the good were a little...

If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

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Beauty is something wonderful ...

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

No action is in itself good or...

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Dying is the most hellishly bo...

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

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You will have to learn many te...

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The Americans, who are the mos...

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.

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There was once a professor of ...

There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

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Beauty is also a Gift of God, ...

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

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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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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...

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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....