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literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
taste kind tragic
This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction. C. S. Lewis
taste enough bad-taste
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable. Agnes Repplier
taste relief huge
When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief. Akshay Kumar
taste remember ancient
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one. Charles Lamb
taste
There is no disputing about taste. Edmund Spenser
taste sour know-how
I know how to be sour. I know that taste. Bill Murray
taste human-nature being-human
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste. Bertolt Brecht
taste turned-down bases
I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste. Dick Van Dyke
taste vices worst
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. Edith Sitwell