Commonness Quotes

“No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.”
― Max Stirner, False Principle of Our Education

“He's meeting his girl now, a girl not much older than 14. A five-and-ten-cents store Cleopatra, a four letter word.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.”
― Katie Waitman, The Merro Tree

“There is a constitution that some have, and I had it---to which everything foreign is wondrous, and all that is domestic, tiresome.”
― Jesse Ball, Census