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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