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"I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit."
— Mel Brooks

tags: bullshit, humor, profanity, shit, vulgarity

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"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."
— Coco Chanel

tags: luxury, poverty, vulgarity

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"If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe."
— Werner Herzog

tags: celebrity, film, magazines, movies, reading, vulgarity

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"The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity'
of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity.'"
— Roland Barthes (Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography)

tags: 41, photography, vulgarity

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"All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark."
— Laurence Sterne

tags: humor, relationsbetweenthesexes, vulgarity

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