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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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A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossing with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. – Cyril Connolly

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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. – Cyril Connolly

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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. – Cyril Connolly

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Bad taste is a species of bad morals. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. – Vicomte De Chateaubriand

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Taste is the feminine of genius. – Lord Edward Fitzgerald

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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. – Maurice Blanchot

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