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A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences (Commonplace Quotes)
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace (Commonplace Quotes)
It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage... is so rare and despised (Commonplace Quotes)
Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique (Commonplace Quotes)
We’ve surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap (Commonplace Quotes)
A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home (Commonplace Quotes)
It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural (Commonplace Quotes)
In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy (Commonplace Quotes)
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable (Commonplace Quotes)
The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another (Commonplace Quotes)
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 (Commonplace Quotes)
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation (Commonplace Quotes)
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace (Commonplace Quotes)
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years (Commonplace Quotes)
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one (Commonplace Quotes)
A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader’s. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it (Commonplace Quotes)
In dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace (Commonplace Quotes)
Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart (Commonplace Quotes)
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace (Commonplace Quotes)
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you - or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life (Commonplace Quotes)
Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts (Commonplace Quotes)
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities (Commonplace Quotes)
To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving (Commonplace Quotes)
Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster (Commonplace Quotes)
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another (Commonplace Quotes)
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low (Commonplace Quotes)
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression (Commonplace Quotes)
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things (Commonplace Quotes)
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home (Commonplace Quotes)
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye (Commonplace Quotes)