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“To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's fellow men, and (c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste. It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country in the world wherein a man constituted as I am - a man of my peculiar weakness, vanities, appetites, and aversions - can be so happy as he can be in the United States.”

“Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an occult and arcane language designed only for the purpose of excluding those who have not mastered it and giving academic rewards to those who have. No one with any literacy, taste or intelligence would want to teach these courses, so the bona fide definition of people teaching them are people who are incapable of teaching anything else.”

People Want Giving Film Purpose Courses Language Teach Teaching Students Theory Taste Rewards Definitions Academic Incapable Literacy Occult Arcane Film Students

Author:Roger Ebert

“One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.”

Kind Situation Keys Taste Smart Definitions Be Kind Nasty Good Taste Unkindness

Book:Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

Source: Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

“TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.”

Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

“At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.”

Mean Has Beens Race Taste Jokes Bottom Defeat Caught Definitions Categories Cosmic Unbelievable Hideous Bad Taste

Author:James A. Baldwin

“An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.”

Persons Taste Ego Lows Humorous Profound Definitions Insane Egotism

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.”

Thinking Wells Past Beautiful White Tree Baby Grew Taste Rain Appreciate Rivers Jazz Definitions Warm Smell Brown Infinity Beautiful Things Rushing Squirrels Swollen Muzzle Chipmunks

Author:David Sedaris