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The countenances of children, ...

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

God bless the USA, so large, s...

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

The class distinctions proper ...

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

Some writers confuse authentic...

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

No poet or novelist wishes he ...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

The critical opinions of a wri...

The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

The words of a dead man are mo...

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

Literary confessors are contem...

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

Healing, Papa would tell me, i...

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

In a land which is fully settl...

In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

A daydream is a meal at which ...

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

Narcissus does not fall in lov...

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

All works of art are commissio...

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

Criticism should be a casual c...

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

God is Love, we are taught as ...

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

Proper names are poetry in the...

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

Between friends differences in...

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

My face looks like a wedding-c...

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

Wystan Auden 123 quotes

May it not be that, just as we...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

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America has always been a coun...

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.

Wystan Auden 123 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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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...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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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...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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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...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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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....