“A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.” ArtHardCharacterUnderstandingInterestExerciseTasteArt IsAffectionGentlemanUnemployedLiberal Arts Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.” PeopleIfsWritingSoulSometimesHardEnoughHappensJoyCertainReadingUnderstandingVoiceBrainSourceTasteEatingHard TimesUnbelievableCandyEnough TimeForksTuningReading Or Writing Author:David Foster Wallace
“We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.” GivingPersonsWarHardMomentsBreakTastePaintWoodsMannersPocketsTattooOrnamentsRefinementBreak OutWar Paint Book:Success and Its Conditions Source: Success and Its Conditions