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“High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.”

Firsts Lines Genius Taste Highest Appreciate Originals Appearance Command Reputation Recognition

Book:Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835

Source: Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835

“Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.”

Source: Brown: The Last Discovery of America

“Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.”

Lines Fit Taste Chaos Wit Conceit

Book:An Essay on Criticism

Source: An Essay on Criticism

“Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.”

World Looks Reality Running Lines Taste Direct Senses Colour Dickens

Author:A. S. Byatt

“The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.”

Knows Want Giving Character Helping Jobs Actors Lines Emotional Exercise Taste Scene Directors Judgment Performances Statements Taste And Judgment

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of unlikely situation. For example: The retarded gynecologist, the retarded Jesus, the retarded Osama Bin Laden. It works. It's funny. Inappropriate? I dunno. I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of what crosses the line of good taste being that I am retarded. Socially perhaps, but severly retarded.”

“There's that weird and cool line that music can cross where it still gives you the goosebumps and you think it's cool but on the other hand it's sort of like also letting you off the hook a little bit with the ironic aspects of the thing. I think that's the inexplicable, the smell of a movie. That's the taste of the movie.”

Thinking Giving Littles Stills Hands Bits Lines Taste Little Bit Aspect Crosses Smell Ironic Hook Inexplicable Goosebumps

Author:Zack Snyder

“There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.”

Lines Responsibility Moral Fine Taste Censorship Good Taste Fine Lines Moral Responsibility

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of constant low-level charge. Bottom line: He was the stuff of heroes. And psychotic killers.”

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

“I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between you teeth.”

Knows Different Lines Rooms Baby Taste Teeth Surround Metals Pulse Tick

Book:Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)

Source: Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)

“It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment.”

Two Home Song Three Lines Simple Hero Victory Comfort Taste Tables Smoke Score Contentment Weary Harvest Mirth Three Friends

Book:The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition

Source: The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition