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“Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.”

Interest Secret Generations Mystery Youth Taste Enthusiasm Posterity Predecessors Secret Society

Book:The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs

Source: The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs

“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

“It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.”

Children Shows Father Belief Parent Pleasure Generations Son Taste Tendencies Denial Denied Abnormal Clergymen

Book:The Story of a Literary Career

Source: The Story of a Literary Career

“Every generation tailors history to its taste.”

History Generations Taste Tailors

Book:The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style

Source: The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style

“One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.”

Age Girl Break Generations Taste Fairs My Favorite Customs Routine Inheritance That Girl Timidity Phobia

Book:Last flight

Source: Last flight

“Part of me also knows that this generation is the least racist and most pro-gay, so that's great. But they have a real lack of gravitas. And they have no taste in music. Vampire Weekend? Can we play some music, please? Can we rock out for a minute? Where's your Metallica?”

Knows Real Play Generations Minutes Rocks Please Taste Gay Vampire Racist Weekend This Generation Metallica Taste In Music Gravitas Pro Gay

Author:Greg Behrendt

“All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life.”

Persons Age Hours Party Generations Groups Particular Taste Profession Tendencies Genre

Author:Mikhail Bakhtin