Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. Samuel Butler (novelist)
Nothing is more commonplace than the reading experience, and yet nothing is more unknown. Reading is such a matter of course that at first glance it seems there is nothing to say about it. Tzvetan Todorov
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. G. K. Chesterton
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry. G. K. Chesterton
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. Jessica Lange