49 Quotations with Commonplace.
- 21. Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
- 22. Nathaniel Hawthorne: No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance ...
- 23. W. Somerset Maugham: No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sinceri ...
- 24. W. Somerset Maugham: No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sinceri ...
- 25. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
- 26. Willa Cather: Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conc ...
- 27. Cesare Pavese: Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suf ...
- 28. Jean Cocteau: Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the sam ...
- 29. Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, ...
- 30. Alexis de Tocqueville: The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can tur ...
- 31. Jose Ortega y Gasset: The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to b ...
- 32. Jose Ortega y Gasset: The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to b ...
- 33. Sean O'Casey: The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the b ...
- 34. Elizabeth Drew: The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage, he or ...
- 35. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite ...
- 36. Mark Twain: To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are ...
- 37. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of ge ...
- 38. Raoul Vaneigem: We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting ...
- 39. Georg Hegel: When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this mig ...
- 40. Eric Hoffer: Where everything is possible miracles become commonplace, but the familiar cease ...
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