#mediocre

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre. ↗

— Billy Wilder

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It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

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We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. ↗

— Uta Hagen

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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#angry #get #go #i #i think

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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