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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.
— Anthony Bourdain
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
— Charles Bukowski
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The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures…
— Susan Sontag
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Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
— Edith Sitwell
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.
— Christian Dior
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We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on…
— Clementine Paddleford
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