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“The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.”
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“Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "victims."”
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“Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.”
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“It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow them very real to you.”
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“Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.”
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“The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.”
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“Taste has no system and no proofs.”
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“Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.”
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“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.”
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“I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.”
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