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Gertrude Stein
: Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
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Marquis De Sade :
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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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W Somerset Maugham :
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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clich?s that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes :
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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
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Thomas Mann :
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This longing for the bliss of the commonplace.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset :
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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.
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Mark Twain :
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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.
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Raoul Vaneigem :
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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.
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Jean Cocteau :
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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.
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Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Let me listen to myself and not to them.
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What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the question?
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Affectations can be dangerous.
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