“A tinfoil wrapper doesn’t make a bum cigar taste any better.”
Featherisms (2008)
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Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.”
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 42 (p. 427)
Adele in Rolling Stone http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/adele-opens-up-about-her-inspirations-looks-and-stage-fright-20120210, April 28, 2011.
Source: How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Plume, New York (2009), p. 15
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 3, “Pseudoscience” (p. 68)
“The strenuous life tastes better”
“Exuberance is better than taste”
Pt. 1, Ch. 4; the most famous portion of this statement is "Exuberance is better than taste…" [Mieux vaut l'exubérance que le goût.]
Sentimental Education (1869)
Context: Without ideality, there is no grandeur; without grandeur there is no beauty. Olympus is a mountain. The most effective monument will always be the Pyramids. Exuberance is better than taste; the desert is better than a streetpavement, and a savage is surely better than a hairdresser!
Source: The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010), Chapter 7, “Beer and Tea” (p. 111)
