A Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
American - Novelist
Born: February 21, 1977

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.

Tony Kushner

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

We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

Ursus Wehrli

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Taylor Caldwell

Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

Iris Murdoch

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Ronald Blythe

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.

Stephen Jay Gould

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

Glen Duncan

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

Ursus Wehrli

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.

Robert Dessaix

I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Sometimes people go off in a slightly different direction of wanting to be different, of wanting to be special, of wanting to be more, and I think that those people are often - not always, but often - genuinely different in some way. Perhaps their gender orientation is not acceptable or popular, not the norm. Or, their physical design is literally, in some way, setting them apart. Or, in many cases, they feel the burden of their ordinariness so dreadfully that they strive to find some way of being unique. I think that can be a very positive thing, but it also can be negative, destructive.

Katherine Dunn

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

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

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