The ordinary and mundane

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There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that kind of the point?

Pam Beesly

The Office

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Topic

Beauty The ordinary and mundane

Speaker

Pam Beesly

Actor

Jenna Fischer

Source

The Office

Medium

TV program

Genre

Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

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Citation

"Finale." The Office, written by Greg Daniels and Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, directed by Ken Kwapis, season 9, episode 23, Deedle-Dee Productions and Shine America and Universal Television, 2013.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

George Eliot

Middlemarch

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The little things The ordinary and mundane

Author

George Eliot

Source

Middlemarch

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

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Original Citation

Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Edinburgh/London: Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 2, ch. 20.

Current Citation

Eliot, George. Middlemarch, edited by Rosemary Ashton. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 2, ch. 20.

We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind.

George Eliot

Middlemarch

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Topic

What is taken for granted The ordinary and mundane

Author

George Eliot

Source

Middlemarch

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

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Original Citation

Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Edinburgh/London: Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 2, ch. 20.

Current Citation

Eliot, George. Middlemarch, edited by Rosemary Ashton. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 2, ch. 20.

The really important "great" things are never center stage of life's dramas; they're always "in the wings." That's why it's so essential for us to be mindful of the humble and the deep rather than the flashy and superficial.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

The little things Special moments Mindfulness The ordinary and mundane Big vs. small

Author

Fred Rogers

Source

The World According to Mister Rogers

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 144.

I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary.

Philip Levine

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Topic

Writing The ordinary and mundane

Speaker

Philip Levine

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Levine, Philip. "The Unwritten Biography." Interviewed by Edward Hirsch. Poets.org, 29 Aug. 2001, poets.org/text/unwritten-biography-philip-levine-and-edward-hirsch-conversation.

I write about little things because the big ones are like abysses.

Anaïs Nin

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Topic

The little things The ordinary and mundane Big vs. small

Author

Anaïs Nin

Source

Journals of Anaïs Nin

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1934 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Nin, Anaïs. "November, 1934." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 1, 1931-1934, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1966.