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2. “Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. That's one of the things I try to teach my students – how to write piercingly. But what on earth's the good of being pierced by an article about a Community Sing, or the latest improvement in scent organs? Besides, can you make words really piercing – you know, like the very hardest X-rays – when you're writing about that sort of thing? Can you say something about nothing?”
Aldous Huxley
Words, Writing, Impact, Teaching, Triviality, Philosophical Question
3. “The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance.” Marcel Proust Journalism, Triviality, Real Importance, Literary Value, Media Critique, Information Overload
6. “Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.” William Wordsworth City’s Chaos, Identity Lost, Confusion, Urban Life, Triviality, Perpetual Motion
Triviality Quotes by Famous Authors
2. “Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. That's one of the things I try to teach my students – how to write piercingly. But what on earth's the good of being pierced by an article about a Community Sing, or the latest improvement in scent organs? Besides, can you make words really piercing – you know, like the very hardest X-rays – when you're writing about that sort of thing? Can you say something about nothing?”
Aldous Huxley Words, Writing, Impact, Teaching, Triviality, Philosophical Question
3. “The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance.”
Marcel Proust Journalism, Triviality, Real Importance, Literary Value, Media Critique, Information Overload
6. “Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.”
William Wordsworth City’s Chaos, Identity Lost, Confusion, Urban Life, Triviality, Perpetual Motion
