"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting." — Gertrude Stein

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• Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,… — Cecil Beaton
• To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is… — Jorge Luis Borges
• Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. — Samuel Butler
• Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick… — George Carlin
• Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark… — Willa Cather
• Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and… — Jean Cocteau
• It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very… — William J. Clinton
• In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see… — Blaise Pascal
• Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the… — William James
• Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial… — Cesare Pavese
• Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may… — Samuel Smiles
• In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned… — Christopher Fry

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