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Quote by Jean Cocteau
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it pr

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? – Jean Cocteau

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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau

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The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. – Jos

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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. – G. K. Chesterton

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Every day of my life, I feel fat. Its not correct thinking in the natural, normal human beings way of life. – Angie Everhart

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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said that “you are what you eat,” but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote. – Joseph Epstein, “Quotatious,” A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays, 1991

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The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling. – Lou Henry Hoover

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