bad taste

Bad Taste Is Good Business - хорошая фраза. попалась мне в The Girls of Cincinnati, еще один пример того, что в любой книге есть по крайней мере одна интересная фраза. странно, что google находит ее кроме этой книжки всего в одном месте: Bad Taste Is Good Business For Elton John. ну что ж, про сэра Элтона лучше не скажешь, наверное.

I called it boiler room fever, this thing that happened when people were thrown in together eight hours a day, five days a week and turned familiarity into lust. Most affairs, and plenty of marriages, had nothing to do with storybook love, as much as the fact that you were here and she was here. Maybe I had a bit of an ego, but I wasn’t stupid enough to think that my looks and my charms lured all these women to me. My greatest asset was that I was here and another guy wasn’t.

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Back at my desk I asked Sonja what I could do for her, it was time to close up shop. She asked if I had seen the latest Woody Allen movie. I said I thought Woody Allen was vastly overrated and that that was the trouble with this country, people were either vastly overrated or vastly underrated.

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Frankly, I could understand old people getting mean-spirited, they had lived a life and had had to do battle, but it didn’t make sense seeing young people getting so hard-nosed.