"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."

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Source : "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Edith Sitwell, 1967.

Edith Sitwell

#Vices Quotes #Taste Quotes #Worst Quotes

“A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying ï¬rst a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they arenâ€™t ï¬‚exible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.”
“People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.”
“A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.”
“Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.”
“There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.”
“Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it”
“Doth sickness fill my heart with fear, 'Tis sweet to know that Thou art near; Am I with dread of justice tried, 'Tis sweet to know that Christ hath died.”

Source : James Edmeston (1799). “Hymns for the Chamber of Sickness”, p.19
“A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.”

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