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Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them. — Emily Post
I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality. — Judy Cannato
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads… — Marianne Moore
Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In… — J. Paul Getty
During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the… — Soren Kierkegaard
To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite… — William Plomer
Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea… — Ben Shahn
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians… — Harold Rosenberg
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point… — John Edensor Littlewood
I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone. — Burton Silverman
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as… — Quentin Crisp
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all,… — Annie Dillard
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the… — C. Northcote Parkinson
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend. — Aleksandar Hemon
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed… — Aleister Crowley
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts —… — Charlotte Bronte
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves… — Anais Nin
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized… — Charles Bukowski
The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite… — John Piper
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys… — Theodor Adorno
He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had… — E. M. Forster
They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the… — D. H. Lawrence
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. — Oscar Wilde

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