Banality Quote by Marguerite Duras Download Open image “Banality is sometimes striking.” — Marguerite Duras ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banality Sometimes
Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal"… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“you seem to find everything banal." "it's a new word whose correct use i have only lately learnt,' said josephine with dignity. 'i find… — Evelyn Waugh Scoop Copy Share Image
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it? — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“And modern houses don't have passages, either, for children to play and run about in, and for dogs, umbrellas, coats and satchels. And don't… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence,… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least.… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“─ No le conozco a usted. Nadie puede conocerle, ponerse en su lugar, usted no tiene lugar, no sabe dónde encontrar un lugar. Por… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the… — John Doe Copy Share Image
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language has been… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
