"I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz."
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"Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste."
"Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented."
"She sounds the way bananas taste."
"Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian."
"Yes ...I am a demon. There's no way I could understand my prey, a human's sense of taste. What I understand is...only the taste of a human's soul."
"Apples taste sweetest when they're going."
"We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing."
"If you like my novels, I commend your good taste."
"I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums."
"I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change."
"Simplicity is a matter of taste"
"Passion paralyzes good taste."
"The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste."
"For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it."
"It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel."
"All tastes are expressions of belief."
"I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather."
"I think I have better taste now than I did then."
"The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind"