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  1. Alain de Botton _ The Pleasures and Sorrows of

    He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.
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  2. Dante Alighieri _ Inferno

    And I - my head oppressed by horror - said: "Master, what is it that I hear? Who are those people so defeated by their pain?" And he to me: "This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart. The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them - even the wicked cannot glory in them.
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  3. Gustave Flaubert _ November

    Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul's possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level
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  4. Daphne du Maurier _ Don't Look Now and Other

    It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.
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  5. Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre

    Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness.
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  6. Kathy Acker _ In Memoriam to Identity

    I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.
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  7. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Valley of Fear

    Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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  8. Fulton J. Sheen _ Life of Christ

    The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives.
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  9. Sarah Vowell _ Assassination Vacation

    A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument handed it over to the Oneida authorities and never played again. When a visiting Canadian teacher complained that the community did not foster "genius or special talent," Noyes was delighted, replying, "We never expected or desired to produce a Byron, a Napoleon, or a Michelangelo." You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.
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  10. Sarah Vowell _ Assassination Vacation

    You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.
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  11. E M Forster _ Where Angels Fear to Tread

    Society is invincible-to a certain degree. But your real life is your own, and nothing can touch it. There is no power on earth that can prevent your criticizing and despising mediocrity-nothing that can stop you retreating into splendour and beauty-into the thoughts and beliefs that make the real life-the real you.
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  12. Frank Herbert _ Children of Dune

    I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?
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