“A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality.” — Carolina de Bartolo Copy Share Image
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“There is no elegy for those who have been dispossessed of their anger--what remains is a future carved out of banality instead… — Brando Skyhorse Copy Share Image
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world. — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities. — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough.… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married… — John Walford Copy Share Image
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“At Dachau. We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children. It was even heated. But that was before we were transferred.… — William Styron Copy Share Image
What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
TV's exploration of the game of consumption and sociability is, by the nature ofthe medium, on a far more subtle level than… — Reuel Denney Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them. — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror. — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the… — Errollyn Wallen Copy Share Image
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