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• To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

  Jean Genet

  Height, Taste, Harmony

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

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• I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste.

  Graham Norton

  Thinking, Taste

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• I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

  Manuel Puig

  Watches, Literature, Taste

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• I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Matter, Taste

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• Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores.

  John Searle

  Matter, Taste, Abstract

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• Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

  Don DeLillo

  Art, Kitsch, Taste

  Don DeLillo (2012). “Running Dog”, p.148, Vintage

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• The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.

  Hermann Hesse

  Thinking, Conceited, Agony

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• with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Taste, Chaos, Medieval

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.41, LSU Press

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• It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.

  Jane Wyman

  Husband, Wife, Taste

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got Type 2 Diabetes... It's in bad taste if nothing else.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Type 2 Diabetes, Knowing, Signatures

  "Anthony Bourdain on Paula Deen's Diabetes: How Long Has She Known?" by Raphael Brion, www.eater.com. January 16, 2012.

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• I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.

  Albert Camus

  New York, Real, Blow

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

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• It's an incredibly limited sphere those tabloids have, isn't it? Basically, they can accuse people of being gay and they can accuse people of taking drugs, but they can't get any more sensational without entering into the realm of incredibly bad taste.

  George Michael

  Gay, People, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of polite society. I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Challenges, Taste

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

  Agnes Repplier

  Taste, Enough

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sex, Two, Fiction

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• [On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Men, Giving, Insane

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.

  Kanye West

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

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• Speaking of opinions, the charming woman does not air hers very freely. The crude woman is eager to let you know what she thinks of every matter, person or object that bobs up. She comments on every passing item - even in public, as you may have noticed. Not only is it bad taste for her to be so desperately interested in her own reactions and opinions - but she throws away the precious aura of reserve and mystery that makes a woman attractive.

  Margery Wilson

  Thinking, Air, Doe

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• People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

  Michael Patrick King

  Smart, Dirty, People

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• I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mind, Church, Accessories

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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• At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

  James A. Baldwin

  Mean, Race, Taste

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• Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

  Horace Walpole

  Age, Genius, Might

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• I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things.

  Helmut Newton

  Way, Taste, Exciting

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• The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

  Vincent Canby

  Shopping, Cheerful, Taste

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• A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Piano, People, Sound

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