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• A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

  Gertrude Stein

  May, Masterpiece, Unwelcome

  Gertrude Stein (2004). “Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

  Ninette de Valois

  Something New

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• I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.

  Mia Kirshner

  Thinking, People, Watches

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• In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Shining, Hammers

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Inspirational, Boys, Play

  Stanley Kubrick, Gene D. Phillips (2001). “Stanley Kubrick: Interviews”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

  Elizabeth I

  Motivational, Witty, Anger

  To Sir Edward Dyer, in T. Tenison (ed.) 'Baconiana' (1679) Apophthegm 5

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• I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Book, Writing, Crusades

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• The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Modeling Industry, Faces, Modeling

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• Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

  John James Audubon

  Dancing, Mathematics, Geography

  "Writings and drawings".

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• Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

  Aphra Behn

  Love, Positive, Birthday

  Aphra Behn (1696). “The Younger Brother: Or, the Amorous Jilt. A Comedy ... Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn. With Some Account of Her Life. [Edited, with Alterations and a Memoir, by Charles Gildon.]”, p.30

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• Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

  William Bernbach

  Humorous, People, Looks

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  Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  "Know Your Limits - Then Ignore Them". Book by John Mason, August 1999.

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• To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Art, Thought Provoking

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• The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

  Sid Caesar

  Funny, Stories, Trouble

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Powerful, America, Champion

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

  William J. Clinton

  Hope, Self, Interesting

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• Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

  William Congreve

  Marriage, Witty, Play

  'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 5, sc. 10

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• I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

  William Congreve

  Stupid People, Stupidity, Growing

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.155

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• The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Life, Travel, Mean

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.95, University of Chicago Press

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• I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

  Charles Darwin

  Funny, Insult, Reading Books

  1860 The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, vol.1.

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• Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Mean, People

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

  Anatole France

  Lying, Book, History

  "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard". Book by Anatole France, 1881.

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• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  J. Paul Getty

  Change, Business, Risk

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• Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

  Emma Goldman

  Heaven, Spirit, Poor

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

  James D. Watson

  Success, Mother, Truth

  James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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