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Take a
commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it
produces the same effect of youth and freshness and
originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you
have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
-- Jean Cocteau
1889-1963, French Author,
Filmmaker
The
characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind,
knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to
proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them
wherever it will.
-- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist,
Philosopher
Nothing is so
commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author,
Wit, Poet
Common looking
people are the best in the world: that is the reason the
Lord makes so many of them.
-- Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth
President of the USA
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If to be
interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a
question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.
-- Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist,
Writer
We can escape
the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it,
thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free
play of our subjectivity.
-- Raoul Vaneigem
1934-, Belgian Situationist
Philosopher
Thou
unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
-- William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet
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