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Laughter is the representative...

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

To give up another person's lo...

To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

If an art has for its function...

If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its sensibility to the extent of showing some figures much as MoliГЁre, for instance, did, as absurd or detestable.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

For the first rate poet, nothi...

For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

The Relativity theory, the cop...

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

We are the first men of a Futu...

We are the first men of a Future that has not materialized. We belong to a 'great age' that has not 'come off'. We moved too quickly for the world. We set too sharp a pace.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

Happiness is the chief materia...

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

Satire has a great big glaring...

Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

God is, of course, a terrifyin...

God is, of course, a terrifying reality. I had thought that I knew all about God, and had Him in a pigeon hole. But I met Him at the corner of a street -- He entered my mind with a bang, and nearly burst my head open.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

Wherever there is objective tr...

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

A man only goes and confesses ...

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

Gertrude Stein's prose-song is...

Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding.... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

Revolution has become a sort o...

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

To be a satirist, at all event...

To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

The Future is distant, like th...

The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element 'Past' must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

Sex is of the same clay as Tim...

Sex is of the same clay as Time! -- of the same clay Since both are in their essence but One-Way Time is the one-way dimension: sex its tart And subtle biological counterpart.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

In life nothing is taken to it...

In life nothing is taken to its ultimate conclusion, life is a half-way house, a place of obligatory compromise; and, in dealing in logical conclusions, a man steps out of life -- or so it would be quite legitimate to argue.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

The streets of a modern city a...

The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage.

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The teacher does not have to b...

The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

The ideal of perfect Success i...

The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.

Wyndham Lewis 98 quotes

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...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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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....