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Quote by Cyril Connolly
No taste is so acquired as that for someone elses quality of mind.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone elses quality of mind. – Cyril Connolly

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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. – Cyril Connolly

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Exile
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. – Cyril Connolly

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Imagination
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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are – like fishes not meant to swim. – Cyril Connolly

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Body, the
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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs. – Coco Chanel

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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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A mans palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. – Charles Baudelaire

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It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care. – Paul Farmer

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I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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