Jane Austen Quotes
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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I don't have lavish taste.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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When all else fails, complicate matters.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.
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Tone matters more than words.
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Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.
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If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
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Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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To customers, it's the shirt that matters, not where it's made.
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
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The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
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In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which the Romans had spread through Europe, disappeared. Not only the arts of elegance, which minister to luxury, and re supported by it, but many of the useful arts, without which life can scarcely be contemplated as comfortable, were neglected or lost.
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I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science fiction writers who think of themselves as having some sort of prophetic role, but when I think of that, I always think of H.G. Wells - he would think of what was going to happen, and he would imagine how it would happen, and then he would create a fiction to illustrate the idea that he'd had. And no part of my process has ever resembled that at all.
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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.
