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• Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

  William Bernbach

  Art, Writing, Taste

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• To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.

  John Waters

  Taste, Very Good, Bad Taste

  "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, 1981.

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• Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Patriotic, Judging

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• Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Humorous, Taste And Judgment

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

  Sarah Vaughan

  Music, Song, African American

  "The Hollywood Reporter" Interview, 1974.

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• I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Reading, People, Parent

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• Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste.

  Willie Brown

  Fashion, Humorous, Political

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• Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

  Mary Quant

  Vulgarity Is, Taste, Vulgarity

  "Why Mary Quant's Swinging Sixties London Look Stills Holds Sway" by Lynn Yaeger, www.vogue.com. February 11, 2015.

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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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• This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Beautiful, Art, Ballet

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• Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Important, Taste, Sometimes

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• I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.

  Vaclav Havel

  Play, People, Important

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• Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.

  John Waters

  Running, Fun, Long

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Lying, Differences, Taste

  "Of Opinions". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

  Graham Greene

  School, Eye, Men

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

  Dorothy Parker

  Brave, Sake, Taste

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• Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

  Cassandra Clare

  Taste, Clockwork Angel, Responding

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

  Jane Green

  Thinking, Taste, Film

  Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.187, Broadway Books

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• As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

  Nalini Singh

  Example, Taste, Firsts

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.26, Penguin

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• I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.

  Tom Rush

  Song, Valentine, Taste

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• I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Hate, Creative

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• We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Food, Simplicity, Taste

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• Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hypocrisy, Doubt, Atheism

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.317, e-artnow

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• The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

  Susan Sontag

  Witty, Exercise, Men

  "Notes on 'Camp'" by Susan Sontag, note 54, (p. 291), 1964.

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• Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Funny, Confidence

  "The Real Story of Lucille Ball" by Eleanor Harris, (Ch. 1), 1954.

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