"One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down."

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Pauline Kael

#Taste Quotes #Culture Quotes #Reverence Quotes

“In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.”
“The problem with improv is that you're letting an idiot tell you what to do.”
“An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.”

Source : "Winner shuns 'toilet-cleaner OBE'", news.bbc.co.uk. May 28, 2006.
“Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think”

Source : Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet (2007). “Dialogues II”, p.4, Columbia University Press
“Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal; Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.”
“I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.”

Source : Details Interview, www.facebook.com. February 16, 2012.
“At the end of the day, when the food has all been served and savored, what's left is your connection to the people around your fire”
“The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.”

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