Quotes About Unspecial

I think of the limitations that specialness requires: doing a series of very unspecial things, very well, over and over (...) (P223)

I know again why I favor it so much here, how I esteem the hush of this suburban foliage in every season, the surprising naturalness of its studied, human plan, how the privying hills and vales and dead-end lanes make one feel this indeed is the good and decent living, a cloister for those of us who are modest and unspecial. [p. 130}