The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
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