I think "taste" is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves. - John Updike

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John Updike: "I think "taste" is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves."

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Anothers	Artistic	Brain	Concept
Elses	Enter	Explicit	Good
Honest	Intimacy	Into	Life
Living	Ourselves	Polite	Reading
Room	Short	Show	Silence
Since	Social	Somebody	Taste
Think	Willing	Words	Writer

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