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• Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. — Ambrose Bierce
• In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity… — Susan Sontag
• It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit.… — Felicity Huffman
• If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but… — Lionel Trilling
• The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself… — Ernst Junger
• A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played… — Dmitri Shostakovich
• To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of… — Maxim Gorky
• The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class. — Louis Dudek
• PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes… — Ambrose Bierce
• Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever… — Peter Mayle
• When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of… — Gordon B. Hinckley
• A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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