Quotes with banality

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• Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés.

  Eugène Ionesco
  Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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• My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

  V.S. Naipaul
  Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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• Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

  Nathalie Sarraute
  French writer (1900 - 1999)
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• 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
  American historian (1932 - 1994)
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• We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• non-communication
• inconceivable
• possibility
• unremitting
• continual
• seemingly

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