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The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is… — William C. Brown
It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see -… — Vincent Van Gogh
A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within. — Katharine Whitehorn
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. — Guy Debord
People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced… — Edward Norton
The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted. — Miuccia Prada
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has… — Rob Sheffield
It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either… — Zadie Smith
L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at… — Geoff Mulgan
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This… — Jean-Paul Sartre
We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful,… — Nick Hornby
She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything,… — Milan Kundera
In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of… — Sylvia Plath
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own… — Orhan Pamuk
Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world. — William Faulkner
It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a… — John O'Donohue
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking.… — Diane Setterfield
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. — Deepak Chopra
And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an… — David Foster Wallace
Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you… — Mary Doria Russell
If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a… — Mary Karr
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. — Julia Child
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often… — Christopher Hitchens
No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on… — David Nicholls

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