Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.

Malcolm Muggeridge
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  1. You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste! - Ed Wood

  2. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels. - Henry Adams

  3. Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

  4. Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. - Marshall McLuhan

  5. It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. - Salvador Dali

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  2. The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

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