"The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster."
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"'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'."
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"Taste everything, but swallow only what fits."
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"Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human."
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"Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations."
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"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste."
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"Money does not make you look expensive, it’s taste."
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"Taste cannot be controlled by law."
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"The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness."
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"Exuberance is better than taste."
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"We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against."
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"The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know."
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"I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything."
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"Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see."
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"Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste."
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"A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!"
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"Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses."
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"A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art."
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"One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding."
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"She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company."
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