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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. -- Taylor Caldwell
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate. -- Ronald Blythe
Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness. -- Ursus Wehrli
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments. -- Peter York
In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure. -- George Will
I don't work at being ordinary. -- Paul McCartney
We long for simplicity and ordinariness. -- Ursus Wehrli
in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre. -- Ntozake Shange
Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness! -- Iris Murdoch
It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us. -- Lorraine Toussaint
I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not. -- Mason Cooley
One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death. -- Glen Duncan
You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with. -- Robert Dessaix
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique. -- Katherine Dunn
How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil. -- D. H. Lawrence
Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Perceiving life in a consciousness of gratitude is literally stepping into another dimension of living. Suddenly the seeming ordinariness of your days takes on a divine sparkle. -- Michael Beckwith
I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography. -- Andy Summers
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life. -- Brennan Manning
Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable. Don't you think it's depressing? -- Tony Kushner
What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life. -- Irena Klepfisz
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, 'I can't believe this happened to me.' And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street? -- Caroline Myss
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making. -- John Shelton Reed
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness. -- Donald Judd
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent. -- Edmund White
We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives. -- Stephen Jay Gould
His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness. -- John Connolly
When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life. -- Denise Linn
So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world. -- Neal A. Maxwell
The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated. -- Allan Kaprow
Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness. -- Deb Caletti
Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated. -- Kenny Smith
For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world. -- Brad Meltzer
Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour. -- Henri Nouwen

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