“The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore.” KnowsTryingSometimesSeemsExistenceNew YorkTasteMannersClothingsWaiter Book:New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill Source: New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill
“I realized that I wasn't naturally born to good taste. I understand what it is, but I am happy to wear bright colors. I do have a few items of black clothing, but I think good taste and doing the same thing over and over again is what the whole art world has become.” ThinkingWorldArtWholeBlackBornColorTasteI RealizedClothingsItemsGood TasteArt WorldBright Colors Author:Jim Shaw
“When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.” IndividualEventsTasteKissingMetaphorEndlessSpotsClothingsAdolescenceCoincidenceRepetitionMiraculousTediousResemblanceUniformityMonotonyAvidDecipher Author:Milan Kundera