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In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally — it's often not important. And then you… — Edouard Manet
If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that… — Alexander Payne
I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living. — Myla Goldberg
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. — Robert Smithson
Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary,… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for… — John Taylor Gatto
Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves… — John Ralston Saul
The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now… — Robert Charles Wilson
The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny and pretty short. To me, the quintessential Army Man joke was one of John… — George Meyer
But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about… — Glenn Greenwald
To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable. — Annette Funicello
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it… — Alan Dean Foster
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in… — Walter Benjamin
To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort… — Christina Ricci
Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic… — Carl Jung
Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the… — J. Paul Getty
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all… — Jane Jacobs
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if… — Robert Greene
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color.… — Joyce Carol Oates
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at… — Gerhard Richter
I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth. I… — Gerhard Richter
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it. — Aidan Chambers
Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a… — Jean Lorrain
Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as… — Remy de Gourmont

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