Famous quotes containing the word ordinary:
“Lifes so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where theres freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. Thats why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Whos Who.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
“Its an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.”
—Pete Townshend (b. 1945)
“... in ordinary fiction, movies, etc. everything is smoothed out to seem plausiblevillains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word of it.”
—Brenda Ueland (18911985)
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