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I did not then know that the world is often plainer than people imagine and that the truth, no matter how banal, is always alive and glowing. — Jean-Christophe Grange

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. — Werner Herzog

There is nothing so banal in the world,' said Ada 'than pitching stones at a hawfinch. — Vladimir Nabokov

To belong to something - that's banal. Creed, ideal, wife or profession: nothing but prison cells and shackles. — Pessoa, Fernando

I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects. — Josef Sudek

Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result. — Philip Roth

Quote: a banal proverb that is considered profound when uttered by a celebrity. — Bauvard

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence. — Anthony Giddens

The very sound of our voices was so odd. So banal. I confess I couldn't wait to get back to my notepaper and pen to tell you how I felt. — Jessica Brockmole

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder. — Jane Jacobs

We live in a world of banal miracles. — Jess Walter

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted. — Miuccia Prada

Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds. — Alex Scally

A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things. — Manolo Blahnik

Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage. — Gustave Flaubert

American religion is conspicuous for its messianically pretentious energy, its embarassingly banal prose, and its impatiently hustling ambition. — Eugene H. Peterson

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. — Robert Smithson

The thing about filming is that it can be the most banal experience because it's slow and there's a lot of waiting around. — Tom Burke

All lives are extraordinary. All lives are simultaneously banal and obvious. — Douglas Kennedy

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty? — Joyce Carol Oates

Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting. — John Fusco

If you hate everything, you're a banal asshole ... but if you don't hate anything, you're boring. — Chuck Klosterman

I think we endure the banal as a way of skirting around the bane. — David Levithan

His point, of course, is that it is easy to make any banal situation seem extraordinary if you treat it as fateful. So — Bill Bryson

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. — Frank Herbert

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. — Milton Glaser

Future became Present, Present became Past. A truth so banal, so obvious and accepted that he had somehow managed to ignore it before. — Iain Banks

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal. — William C. Brown

This monotonous world around
Seems boring, colorless, and dull.
I just existed till I found
You in my life which was banal. — Tatyana K. Varenko

I'm a total atheist, and for me it's just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living. — Myla Goldberg

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal. — Edward Abbey

Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it — Francis Bacon

She had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple. — Vladimir Nabokov

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life. — Anne Michaels

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. — Guy Debord

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing. — Karl Ove Knausgaard

This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal. — Robert Harris

I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting. — George Saunders

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it. — Aidan Chambers

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. — Mary McCarthy

What happens to us either happens to everyone or only to us: in the first instance it's banal; in the second it's incomprehensible. — Fernando Pessoa

In an art museum, you shall realise how banal and how ordinary the life outside! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream. — Salman Rushdie

One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called a "function. — Paul Beatty

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life. — Ezra Furman

Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept ... The plastic asshole of the world. — William Faulkner

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened. — Jean Baudrillard

Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal. — Leslie Jamison

A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within. — Katharine Whitehorn

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable. — Annette Funicello

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations. — Peter Hoeg

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter. — Edith Wharton

It's precisely the sense that we're different that makes us so banal. — Daniel Kehlmann

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life. — Geraldine McCaughrean

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. — Deepak Chopra

The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution. — Sol LeWitt