Ego Masquerading as Taste

“People who claim to like pictures and books will often only respond to those pictures and books in which they can clearly find themselves. This is ego masquerading as taste.” — Jeanette Winterson

I know people like that! People who have some weird inability to learn things unless it has to do with them … or, people who are only fascinated by things because of how it relates to them, as opposed to being fascinated by things because they are fascinating.

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