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In heaven, when the blessed us...

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

If truth is a value it is beca...

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The drama is make-believe. It ...

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The inclination to digress is ...

The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It has been said that good pro...

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I knew that suffering did not ...

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Truth is not only stranger tha...

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

A man filled with meat turns h...

A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

But what is criticism? Critici...

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

When she liked anyone it was q...

When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not vice; it wasn't lasciviousness; it was her nature. She gave herself as naturally as the sun gives heat or the flowers their perfume. It was a pleasure to her and she liked to give pleasure to others.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It seems that the creative fac...

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

If a nation values anything mo...

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess ...

Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I am told that today rather mo...

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

No egoism is so insufferable a...

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Any nation that thinks more of...

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

People who ask for your critic...

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Death is a very dull, dreary a...

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Common sense and nature will d...

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Common-sense appears to be onl...

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

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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....