"My life is short. I can't listen to…" — V.S. Naipaul
"My life is short. I can't listen to banality."
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115 Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children,…
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when…
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking
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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it…
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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the…
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for…
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your…
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the…
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms…
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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More Banality Quotes
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable…
— Philip Zimbardo
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which…
— Andre Gide
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is…
— Susan Sontag
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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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Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which…
— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
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Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple…
— Perry Anderson
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Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.
— Thrity Umrigar
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but…
— Umberto Eco
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Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
— Eugene Ionesco
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Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less…
— Robert C. Solomon
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