#commonplace

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

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Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace. ↗

— Jean Henri Fabre

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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Vanilla has become too genericized. It’s become standard, which is good. Vanilla is a household name. But the same standardization that’s made it so popular has taken the novelty out of it. Being the vanguard of ice cream has vanquished its radical sensation. ↗

— Benson Bruno

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