A Quote by Robert Fritz

Reality is an acquired taste.

Robert Fritz

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Robert Fritz
American - Author
Born: 1943

For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me.

David Costabile

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

Helen McCloy

Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.

Diane von Furstenberg

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.

Henry Clay Trumbull

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

Mark Van Doren

money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.

Helen McCloy

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

Emily Dickinson

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Stephen Bayley

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Cyril Connolly

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Patricia Hampl

I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].

Carrie Fisher

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

Saul Williams

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

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