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41 " Being at the top of your career was like being at the top of a Ferris wheel: you knew that you had to keep moving, and you knew which way you were going. You had no choice. "
― Nick Hornby , Funny Girl
42 " Через много лет до Тони дошло, что писатель всегда обречён на неприкаянность. Почему-то неприкаянные часто становятся писателями. "
43 " Fifteen years was a long time in the life of a woman, though, when those fifteen years had been disappointing. "
44 " Perhaps he would wake up the next morning realizing that he’d made an utter ass of himself, but there were worse animals than the ass. And in London you saw asses wandering around everywhere. Nobody seemed to mind, much. Dennis had spent an awful lot of time not making an ass of himself, and he didn’t have anything to show for it. The "
45 " What a terrible thing an education was, he thought, if it produced the kind of mind that despised entertainment and the people who valued it. Edith "
46 " Non potevano dare alla gente quel che voleva, se non c'era gente lì a ricevere il dono "
47 " Sophie was beginning to realize that there was nothing to be done about actors: they would always end up sleeping with each other. They had always done so, and they probably always would. "
48 " He was beginning to wonder whether June’s facility, and their shared interest, might serve them better in the long run than a passionate sexual relationship that would eventually die on them. "
49 " She was so clever, Dennis thought, and so kind, and he found the familiar gloom descend upon him. "
50 " You were going to take me bikini shopping?” “Not me, dear. Patsy. I’m not interested in looking at curvy young women in bikinis. I’m deeply in love with my wife and I’m only interested in money. "
51 " If, during his engagement to Edith, someone had tried to explain how lonely marriage could be, he wouldn’t have believed it. "
52 " you had to do, it seemed, was ask for an inferior version of the life you’d had before and London would give it to you. "
53 " It didn't help, reminding herself that if she were back in Blackpool she'd spend the afternoon aching to be in London. It just made her feel that she'd never be happy anywhere. "
54 " She wasn’t the sort of catch one could take home and show off to people; she was the sort of catch that drags the angler off the end of the pier and pulls him out to sea before tearing him to pieces as he’s drowning. He shouldn’t have been fishing at all, not when he was so ill-equipped. "
55 " It's a funny thing, sex," she said. "It's a little thing like a glass of water is a little thing. Or something that falls off a car and only costs a couple of bob to replace. It's only a little thing, but nothing works without it. "
56 " It was an inappropriate thought, but the baby wasn't so much like a love child, the effortless product of the blissful or even oblivious union of two people. He was a different sort of miracle, the effortful product of a tricky collaboration between unlikely partners. He was their version of a television program. "
57 " wished she didn’t spend so much time worrying about the end of it all, but she couldn’t help it. Being at the top of your career was like being at the top of a Ferris wheel: you knew that you had to keep moving, and you knew which way you were going. You had no choice. "
58 " Dennis sighed. He liked working with talented, thoughtful people, but sometimes he wished he could have the same success with unimaginative hacks. "
59 " Some of it can, of course. The new satirical shows "
60 " People who were born in '66 are nearly fifty? I know the show's fifty, but it seems like yesterday. Human years are different. I'd have guessed that Tim was twenty-five for thirty. "