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“In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).”

Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950

“In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in general-the habit of judgment is now to be stamped out.”

People Desire Found Sex Particular Habit Taste Judgment Areas Consolation

Book:Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

Source: Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

“The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.”

Two Sex Sin Fiction Too Much Worst Taste Sentiments Pornography Sentimentality Bad Taste

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.”

Two Sex Stupid Taste Horror Creatures Sexuality Assertion Poignant Analytics Flair Feline Personal Taste

Book:Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

“The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.”

Should Sex Fashion Havens Taste Crosses Firm Bathroom Dressings

Book:Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.”

Should Persons Sex Strange Taste Fairs All Things Handsomeness

Author:Robert Boyle

“In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.”

Thinking Film Language Sex Violence Television Taste Abuse Presses Tolerance Mainstream Graphic

Author:Charlton Heston

“I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.”

World Love Life Needs Romance Dies Sex Taste Before I Die

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Think about food on a full stomach and you find you don't care about taste. Think of lust after making love, and you find you don't care about sex. Therefore, if people always reflect on the regret they will feel afterward to forestall folly at the moment, they will be stable and will not err in action.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Moments Care Action Sex Regret Taste Don't Care Lust Folly Taoism Stomach Stable Making Love

Author:Zicheng Hong