"Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing."
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"Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself."
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"Good taste is the enemy of creativity."
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"Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste."
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"A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level."
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"The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts."
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"Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished."
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"Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent."
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"To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored."
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"taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
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"Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't."
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"No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable."
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"Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s."
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"I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim."
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"One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people."
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"Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul."
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"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."
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"'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'"
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"I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music."
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"... naturalness is not always consonant with taste."
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