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