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“Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.”

Thinking Art Body Might Imagination Wonder Grace Happened Taste Stranger Naked Shock Vessel Anatomy

Author:Robert Genn

“Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.”

Source: And so it goes

“The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.”

People World Writing Feelings Natural Perfect Grace Security Style Fine Taste Profound Depth Delicate Daring Engaging Distinguished Polish Careless Vigorous Naivete

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.”

Made Certain Song House Strong Rooms Beauty Grace Tree Please Taste Standards Bird Rivers Weak Relation Dresses Prose Verses Discourse Good Taste

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.”

“In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.”

Art Imagination Grace Style Taste Persuasion Magnificence

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”

Way Life Heart Moments Pain Lasts Spiritual Grace Mystery Keys Holy Taste Smell Analysis Excitement Boredom Gladness

Author:Frederick Buechner

“One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?”

Want Doe Moving Perfect Grace Taste Timing Elegance Exquisite Blossoming Orchids Zebras Perfect Timing

Book:Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

Source: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition