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Idries Shah
“Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.
Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.”
Idries Shah, Reflections

Michael Bassey Johnson
“If any woman opens her legs for you, don't feel so lucky to be fed with nonsense, she has been a bitch for a long time, and now its your own turn to get a share from her itching tunnel.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Hannah Arendt
“You are quite right, I changed my mind and do no longer speak of 鈥渞adical evil.鈥� 鈥� It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never 鈥渞adical,鈥� that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface. It is 鈥渢hought-defying,鈥� as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its 鈥渂anality.鈥� Only the good has depth that can be radical.

(letter to Scholem from December 1964)”
Hannah Arendt

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Jonathan Lethem
“He was permanently impressed by the most irrelevant banalities and impossible to impress with real novelty, meaning, or conflict. And he was too moronic to be properly self-loathing--so it was my duty to loathe him instead.”
Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Francis Bacon
“Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it.
Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson”
Francis Bacon

Tom McCarthy
“Incomprehensible is no better than banal 鈥� it鈥檚 just its flip-side.”
Tom McCarthy, Satin Island

Dulce  Mar铆a
“Lo superfluo no es eterno. Lo banal tiene un final. Lo material no tiene fundamento y no todo lo que parece verdad es real.”
Dulce Mar铆a

“脦ntotdeauna se g膬se葯te ceva banal la culme 卯n tragediile altora.”
Necunoscut

Rasmenia Massoud
“How nice that must be, to blend in with unexceptional people in that banal, work-a-day banter. Like regular people.”
Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

Tadeusz Konwicki
“But in all that suffering, the most painful suffering of all was the consciousness that it was banal, had all been discovered a long time ago, and was known to all the generations past, all just a repeated series, stamped out by our genes, That the universe was filled to its edges groans as alike as two notes, that those particular groans formed one great groan similar to the shrill parliament of the sparrows and that groan became an interstellar roar, the inaudible groan of the aging cosmos.”
Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse

Rasmenia Massoud
“Then a thought occurs to me that nice can turn to annoying or dull if a person isn鈥檛 careful, or stops paying attention.”
Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

Terry Eagleton
“The inmates of Belsen or Buchenwald did not have to die hallowed by their sufferings, or with a brave resignation to their fate, or conscious of themselves as world-historical figures, or exulting in the thought that, though they themselves might perish, the human spirit itself is invincible, in order to earn the title of tragic. They simply had to be men and women in an intolerable situation. The banal truth is that one does not need to do anything in particular to qualify as a tragic protagonist. One simply has to be a human being at the end of one鈥檚 tether. One does not have to be virtuous, only virtuous enough not to deserve the wretchedness to which you are reduced.”
Terry Eagleton, Tragedy

“Sex has become so easy, so banal,
that it is difficult to convince a person
to go out with you just to talk.”
Augusto Branco