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“A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.”

Ifs Men Feels Heart Worst Taste Fame Labor Rewards Possession Reputation Frivolous

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an occult and arcane language designed only for the purpose of excluding those who have not mastered it and giving academic rewards to those who have. No one with any literacy, taste or intelligence would want to teach these courses, so the bona fide definition of people teaching them are people who are incapable of teaching anything else.”

People Want Giving Film Purpose Courses Language Teach Teaching Students Theory Taste Rewards Definitions Academic Incapable Literacy Occult Arcane Film Students

Author:Roger Ebert

“When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite.”

Age History Pride Taste Embrace Rewards Manners Purity Favourite Thrones Justified Impatience Emperor Roman Empire Degenerates Discreet

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of time and the changes in literary taste. The other poets mentioned are my poetic cohort from the U.K. I wrote the piece in situ, as it were, while making a television documentary about World War I in Germany.”

World War Pieces Meditation Television Poet Taste Rewards Financial Passing Passings War Of The Worlds Germany Poetic Ironic World War I Documentaries Lament

Author:Simon Armitage

“Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.”

Thinking Results Exercise Taste Constant Rewards

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929

“We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.”

Way Country Facts Taste Rewards Permit Bad Taste

Author:John Irving

“Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no gain? Same concept. You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns out sour in the end. But if you take the hard path---ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.”

Source: The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)