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“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.”

Ifs Men Humans Hands Form Winning Left Differences Brain Cutting Groups Victory Taste Creatures Members Essentials Fingers Defeat Various Bones Damage Left Hand Mutilation

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“If you could change the neural pathways in your brain so that you could recall everything you've ever heard, taste, smelled or touched, basically from the womb on, and use it at your disposal, that's an interesting concept.”

Ifs Use Interesting Brain Heard Taste Concepts Touched Recalls Womb Pathways

Author:Bradley Cooper

“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.”

“In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it, the term "libertarian" has been used instead. It may be the answer; but for my part I find it singularly unattractive. For my taste it carries too much the flavor of a manufactured term and of a substitute. What I should want is a word which describes the party of life, the party that favors free growth and spontaneous evolution. But I have racked my brain unsuccessfully to find a descriptive term which commends itself.”

“For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.”

People Brain Millions Television Habit Taste Degrading

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.”

Enough Fall Brain Laughing Taste Islands Retreat Good Taste

Author:Ray Bradbury

“We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.”

Culture Brain Taste Bud Taste Buds

Author:David H. Murdock

“Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.”

Thinking World Light Together Sound Brain Grew Taste Elements Complicated Smell Dimensions Fabulous Woven Complicated Things

Author:Alan Watts

“Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.”

Littles Persons Art Brain Talent Example Taste Classic

Author:Gloria Swanson

“I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.”

Source: Conversations with John Updike

“Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.”

“I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a bit too curvy for his taste. He was thinking he'd better not think about me that way anymore. He was missing his wife.”

Thinking Way Bits Brain Wife Missing Taste Distracted Bras Curvy

Book:Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

Source: Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

“First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something.”

Firsts Heart Dream Brain Lovers Taste Pages Smell Betray Exes Zombie Ex Lover

Author:T.C. Boyle

“Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood”

Men Littles Long Bigs Animal Mistake Brain Stupid Taste Office Enlightenment Hollywood Towns Luck Arrogance Fancy Lots Of Money Small Town Knack Little Man Stupidest

Author:Raymond Chandler

“But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel.”

World Feels Reason Perfect Brain Example Taste Tables Bills Add Faults Waiter

Book:Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition