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Good taste is the expression of a colossal incompetence. It is the “putting on" of the genteel audience as a mask or net by which to capture ambient snob appeal.
Through the Vanishing Point
with Harley Parker (1968), p 185
Quote #3675
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1968
Chapter:
Masks
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