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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
V. S. Naipaul
Life
Life Is Short
My Life
Banality
Listen
Short
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
Nathalie Sarraute
Sphere
Television
Out
Lifted
Major
Industry
Banality
Handicraft
Placed
Manufacture
You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
Bono
Death
You
Grace
Behavior
Nice
Merge
Sort
Politeness
Gotta
Banality
Very
Just
Where
Careful
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality.
Joseph Brodsky
Free
Fears
Poet
Worse
Though
No Guarantee
Seems
Shameful
Free Verse
He
Unthinkable
Contemporary
Him
Verse
Banal
Banality
Than
American
Just
Anything
Rhymes
Against
Use
Uses
Therefore
Guarantee
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
Christopher Lasch
Today
Overcome
Sense
Possibility
Banality
American
Endless
Order
Against
Social
Social Order
There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
Jason Alexander
Service
Community
Think
Insane
Rather
Seinfeld
Banality
Than
Community Service
Shows
The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success.
Richard Flanagan
Success
History
Presidential
Slogan
Only
Exceeded
Most
Campaign
Australian
Banality
Labor
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
Douglas Sirk
Politics
Art
Style
Too
Worthy
Because
Were
Banality
Common
Common Belief
Belief
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
Karan Mahajan
Love
People
Evil
Bad Things
Bad
Stay
About
Fact
Talking
Banality
Want
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Away
Actually
Things
Evil has always been there; it's always a part of us. Evil is no big surprise. But what about the people who gave freely, who stood up for human dignity? Even in the most extreme and terrible situations, these acts of dignity existed. And for me, that is the banality of good.
Rithy Panh
Good
Me
Dignity
People
Evil
Big
Gave
Extreme
About
Part
Freely
Most
Terrible
Always
Surprise
Been
Existed
Up
Banality
Stood
Situations
Human
Big Surprise
Human Dignity
Us
Who
Even
Acts
The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.
Francois Pinault
Love
Art
Religion
You
Humanity
People
Passion
Church
Become
Others
Possess
Possesses
Religious
Like
Message
Pray
Falling
Falling In Love
Banality
Very
Common
Believers
Unites