"Banality is sometimes striking."

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Source : Marguerite Duras (2015). “Hiroshima Mon Amour”, p.93, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Marguerite Duras

#Sometimes Quotes #Banality Quotes

“At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.”
“...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.”

Source : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”
“Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.”
“Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.”
“Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.”
“I love losing myself in the extremes of a range of characters.”
“I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.”
“Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.”

Source : "Carmina". XXXIX, 16,

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