“Include utter banalities.”
Notebook regarding Full Metal Jacket, quoted in movie Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008) by Jon Ronson
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“Banality is sometimes striking.”
Source: Hiroshima Mon Amour

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“The fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.”
Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), ch. 15.

“There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”
The Teacher of Literature (1894)

“There is no death, each of us knows —
it's banal to say.
I'll leave it to others to explain.”
Poem without a Hero (1963)
“75: The computing field is always in need of new cliches: Banality sooths our nerves.”
Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“[I]n science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.”
"The Fact in Fiction", p. 266. First published in Partisan Review (Summer 1960)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)