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Letter "C" » commonplace
«Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
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«Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.»
Author: Edward Weston
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«Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.»
«It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. And the reply, absurd as it doubtless seems to most men now living, may be an obvious commonplace to their descendants»
Author: Josiah Quincy
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History
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«And God, who studies each separate soul, out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole»
«In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.»
Author: Christopher Fry
(Writer)
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Life,
Play
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commonplace, for the first time, run into
«It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved»
«As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.»
«In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low»
«It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us»
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