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Letter "T" » tastes
«I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.»
«Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.»
Author: Jean Genet
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Dramatist,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
beds,
exile,
flower bed,
inter,
interred,
judiciary,
related,
sleeve,
social order,
tastes,
wheat
«Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.»
«It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites /opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity /where energies flow smoothly in one direction /there will be much doing but no music.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Writer)
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Keywords:
bents,
energies,
flow,
loyalties,
opposite,
opposites,
polarity,
pull,
smoothly,
stretched,
tastes,
yearnings
«Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.»
«. . . it tastes well, the bread which you earn yourself.»
«INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.»
«CANNIBAL, n. A gastronome of the old school who preserves the simple tastes and adheres to the natural diet of the pre-pork period.»
«Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.»
«Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.»
Author: John Ruskin
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Critic,
Writer)
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About:
Humility
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Keywords:
agony,
blade,
elephant,
goad,
goaded,
goads,
joyously,
sugar,
sweetness,
tastes,
The Mighty,
trembles,
trodden,
underneath