“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot 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
Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life -… — Elizabeth Kostova 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
I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking… — John Doe Copy Share Image
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an… — Elsa Maxwell 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
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
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray 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
If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is… — Anonymous 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
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
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
She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
