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- I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer… — Saul Bellow
- Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures… — Cecil Beaton
- Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and… — Jean Cocteau
- It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution… — William J. Clinton
- In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference… — Blaise Pascal
- Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,… — Cesare Pavese
- In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner… — Christopher Fry
- In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. — Alexander Pope