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Men are seldom
more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
-- Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet,
Satirist
A mental
disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with
the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young
people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal
unit.
-- Ivan Chtcheglov
Banality is a
symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés.
-- Eugene Ionesco
1912-, Romanian-born French
Playwright
Banality is a
terribly likely consequence of the underused of a good mind.
That is why in particular it is a female affliction.
-- Cynthia Propper-Seton
When the
shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning,
it satisfies the senses amazingly.
-- Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist,
Essayist
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