Ordinary World Quotes

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  Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

  Charles Bukowski

  Soul, Dimensions, Madness

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• I have no time for things that have no soul.

  Charles Bukowski

  Soul, Understand Me

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• I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

  Anais Nin

  Want, Proportion, Disregard

  Diary entries, March 25, 1933.

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• I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

  Anais Nin

  Ecstasy, Tempo, Neurotic

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• Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

  Erica Jong

  Crazy, People, Exceptional

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 13, 2012

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• Artful without being pretentious, well-made without being staid, Trey Moody's investigations of our weird and ordinary world are a little off, by which I mean that they're onto something. Read 'em and be crept into.

  Graham Foust

  Mean, Ems, Littles

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• You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Creative, Virtue, Vicious

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• If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Hard Times, Morality

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the gorgeous and vanishing palace that is this ordinary world and ordinary life. Jungian archetype would say the house is a figure for the experienced, experiencing self.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Doors, Self, House

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

  Ted Kooser

  Beautiful, Way, Devices

  Ted Kooser (2007). “The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets”, p.8, U of Nebraska Press

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• [William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

  Eudora Welty

  Strange, Accepted, Familiarity

  Eudora Welty, Pearl Amelia McHaney (2009). “Occasions: Selected Writings”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.

  Nancy Mairs

  Self, People, Satisfaction

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• Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Medicine, Two Worlds, People

  Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Games, Generations, Festivals

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• When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.

  Anne Michaels

  Gratitude, Sweet, Book

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• I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.

  Kate Forsyth

  Thinking, Magic, Fiction

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• What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

  Peter Straub

  Jumping, Pigs, Would Be

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• But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?

  David Eddings

  Possible And Impossible, Law, Two

  David Eddings (2010). “Pawn Of Prophecy: Book One Of The Belgariad”, p.53, Random House

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• This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind stops. Outside, the world changes totally. It is no more the ordinary world you have known before. In fact, you have not known it at all. Your mind was distorting everything, your mind was creating fantasies. Your eyes were full of fantasies and you were looking though those fantasies. They never allowed you to see that which is. If the mind is gone, even for a moment, suddenly the whole existence explodes upon you.

  Rajneesh

  Beauty, Eye, Creating

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• The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Special, Records

  Source: collider.com

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• It seems to me that [my films] are talking about very simple and, I hope, universal feelings. And at the same time, even though they are set in a very weird world with elements that are irrational, at the same time, it's very close to an ordinary world. And I like to have this third feeling of mystery.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Simple, Talking, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Albums, Done, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Song, Radio, Lasts

  Source: collider.com

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• The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Home, Naps, Style

  Source: collider.com

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• In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Party, Home, Son

  Source: collider.com

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