"I think of myself as a very ordinary……" — Rachel Joyce
"I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves."
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38 Quotes by Rachel Joyce
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The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear…
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You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you…
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After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.
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... He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and…
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If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.
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The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.
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People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew…
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He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept…
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I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?
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I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that…
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But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.
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He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was his journey to accept the…
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More Banal Quotes
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.
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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and…
— Michael Leunig
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You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why…
— Jason Calacanis
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They just talk drivel. Whoever is winning is great, whoever isn't, isn't. It's banal. And also semi-literate at times ...…
— Eamon Dunphy
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Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is…
— Lewis Thomas
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I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.
— Josef Sudek
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Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland,…
— John Szarkowski
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and…
— Walter Benjamin
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In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.
— David Foster
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