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“Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.”

People Thinking Way Feelings Audience Taste Members Lows Ordinary Understood Crowds Frightening Impress Decency

Book:I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

Source: I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“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

“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

“My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.”

Ends Running Film Fiction Fantasy Drama Taste Lows Science Fiction Budgets

Author:Michael Sheen

“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