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“There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.”

Art Generations Fashion Design Taste Demand Clothes Heavy Appetite Mediocrity

Author:Paul Gauguin

“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. Relatively few are free enough from the spell of the daily routine to respond to rappings from outside, and tales of ordinary feelings and events, or of common sentimental distortions of such feelings and events, will always take first place in the taste of the majority; rightly, perhaps, since of course these ordinary matters make up the greater part of human experience.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.”

Source: Curiosities of literature

“The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.”

Inspirational Should Self Able Joy Universe Heaven Term Religious Hell Taste Demand Finals Consent Blackmail Loveless Veto Great Divorce

Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.”

Values Grows Hours Attitude Five Week Type Taste Demand Refuse Nine Boss Legislation Unemployment Old Fashioned Mental Attitude Gradual Change

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.”

Giving Greater Week Taste Demand Workers Patterns Length Flexible Reduction

Author:Tom Hodgkinson