Provincial Average

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or average:

“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Whether or not his newspaper and a set of senses reduced to five are the main sources of the so-called “real life” of the so- called average man, one thing is fortunately certain: namely, that the average man himself is but a piece of fiction, a tissue of statistics.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)