#mediocrity

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. ↗

— William Hurt

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The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. ↗

— William Hurt

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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

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Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

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Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. ↗

— Armand Assante

#i #literature #mediocrity #suffocating

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#mediocrity

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. ↗