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  • An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful.

  • Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything

  • Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

    Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
  • Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.

    Eye   Evil   Joy  
  • Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

  • Reality is an acquired taste.

    Robert Fritz (1996). “Corporate Tides: The Inescapable Laws of Organizational Structure”, p.28, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  • Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha)

    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Seize the Night”, p.85, Macmillan
  • A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste.

  • I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

  • The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

    Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.927, Harvard University Press
  • You smoke? (Randy) Only when I’m on fire. (Steele) I don’t appreciate your humor, Mr. Steele. (Randy) I’m an acquired taste. (Steele)

    Fire   Appreciate   Taste  
  • Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.

    Mean   Levels   Taste  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

  • Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

    Truth   Honesty   Taste  
  • Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire…. ….The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty

    Doe   World   Want  
  • I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

  • Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

    Memorable   Men   Water  
    "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.
  • Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

    "Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a ‘70s Hollywood Childhood (Part 2)" by Shawn Amos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.
  • Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.

    Book   Writing   Taste  
  • To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

    George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
  • Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

    Latin   World   Want  
    Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.12, eBookIt.com
  • ... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

    Men   Taste   Leisure  
    Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.75, Random House
  • The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

  • I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

  • Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

    Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade
  • Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

    Money   Addiction   Taste  
  • I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

    Focus   Taste   Language  
    "Infecting Nike, Initiating Obama: An Interview With Saul Williams". Interview with Scott Thill, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2008.
  • I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

    Want   Littles   Taste  
  • A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

    Money   Car   Railroads  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

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