1946 · Skopia

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1946

★ 7.0

Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

Politics and the English Language · 1946

★ 7.0

Film · Film noir · Drama (film) · Drama

Talk or dance, but, don't do both things at the same time.

Gilda

Gilda · 1946

★ 7.0

Film · Christmas (film) · Drama (film) · Christmas · Drama

Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.

Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life)

It's a Wonderful Life · 1946

★ 7.0

Song · Great American songbook

There's no business like show business.

Irving Berlin

There's No Business Like Show Business · 1946

★ 6.9

Poem

Hope raises no dust.

Paul Eluard

1946

★ 6.9

There ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.

Gertrude Stein

1946

★ 5.3

Song · Great American songbook

Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you.

Irving Berlin

Anything You Can Do · 1946

★ 5.3

Novel

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek · 1946

★ 5.1

Film · Film noir · Crime (film) · Crime

A lot depends on who's in the saddle.

Vivian Rutledge

The Big Sleep · 1946

★ 4.8

Novel

"Life is trouble," Zorba continued. "Death, no. To Live-do you know what that means? To undo your belt and look for trouble!"

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek · 1946

★ 4.4

Novel

The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek · 1946

★ 4.3

I can't prove you are a Communist. But when I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet and associates with ducks-I'm certainly going to assume that he is a duck.

Emil Mazey

1946

★ 4.2

Film · Christmas (film) · Drama (film) · Christmas · Drama

You look a little older without your clothes on.

George Bailey

It's a Wonderful Life · 1946

★ 4.0

Essay · Political literature

To think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration.

George Orwell

Politics and the English Language · 1946

★ 3.9

Essay · Political literature

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.

George Orwell

1946

★ 3.8

Essay

Good prose is like a windowpane.

George Orwell

1946

★ 3.8

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein

1946

★ 3.7

Essay · Political literature

When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases—bestial atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder—one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy... The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved.

George Orwell

Politics and the English Language · 1946

★ 3.7

Short story

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

1946

★ 3.7

Film · Christmas (film) · Drama (film) · Christmas · Drama

Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people.

Man on Porch

It's a Wonderful Life · 1946

★ 3.7

Film · Film noir · Spy (film) · Spy

An old friend is never an extra guest.

Alexander Sebastian

Notorious · 1946

★ 3.7

Poem

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

Robert Graves

The Persian Version · 1946

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

★ 3.5

Play

I do not know why the necessity of God Should feed on grief; but it seems so.

Christopher Fry

1946

★ 3.5

Essay

Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man-there has never been such another... Who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as "The women, God help us", or "The ladies, God bless them!"

Dorothy L. Sayers

1946

★ 3.5

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Max Beerbohm

From Bloomsbury to Baywater · 1946

★ 3.5

Speech · Commencement address

It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace, a peace that would last. But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It has made the prospect of future war unendurable.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

1946

★ 3.5

Courtroom speech · Speech

If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime.

Robert H. Jackson

1946

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation…we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Bernard Baruch

Address to the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946 · 1946

★ 3.4

Film · Film noir · Spy (film) · Spy

I don't like gentlemen who grin at me.

Alicia Huberman

Notorious · 1946

★ 2.3

Film · Film noir · Spy (film) · Spy

Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other, that's your "patriotism."

Alicia Huberman

Notorious · 1946

★ 2.2

Film · Film noir · Drama (film) · Drama

Doesn't it bother you at all that you're married?

Johnny Farrell

Gilda · 1946

★ 2.1

Film · Christmas (film) · Drama (film) · Christmas · Drama

Mary, I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and next year, and the year after that. I'm shakin' the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm gonna see the world.

George Bailey

It's a Wonderful Life · 1946

★ 2.1

Film · Film noir · Spy (film) · Spy

Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character.

Devlin

Notorious · 1946

★ 2.1

Essay · Political literature

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

George Orwell

Politics and the English Language · 1946

★ 2.0

Interview

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't... All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Mao Zedong

1946

★ 2.0

Film · Film noir · Drama (film) · Drama

It is so crowded and yet so lonely, isn't it?

Uncle Pio

Gilda · 1946

★ 2.0

Film · Film noir · Spy (film) · Spy

We are protected by the enormity of your stupidity, for a time.

Madame Sebastian

Notorious · 1946

★ 2.0

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