Conventional Life Quotes

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  • I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

    "Madonna Misses "Certain Things" About Being Married". OK! Magazine, January 12, 2012.
  • I lead a very conventional life.

  • Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.

    People   Ordinary   Way  
    Novelists, Poets and Playwrights (2002).
  • Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

    Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell
  • I refuse to live a conventional life.

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  • All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.

  • Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

    Wisdom   Silly   Reading  
    Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House
  • It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.

  • Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

    Book   Reading   Thinking  
    Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House
  • Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

    Art   Reality   Opaque  
  • Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion.

  • I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

    Fall   People   Trying  
    Marian Engel (1985). “The Tattooed Woman”, Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
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