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• Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

  Irving Wallace

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

  Martha Graham

  Repetition, Ecstasy

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• Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

  Vance Packard

  Music, Rocks, Hysteria

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• Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

  Francis Picabia

  Nature, Equality, Boredom

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• Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

  Anna Katharine Green

  Suffering, Apathy, Existence

  Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE FORSAKEN INN (Gothic Mystery Classic): Historical Thriller: Intriguing Novel Featuring Dark Events Surrounding a Mysterious Murder”, p.47, e-artnow

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• Monotony reveals our limitations.

  Dale Carnegie

  Limitation

  Dale Carnegie, General Press (2016). “The Art of Public Speaking”, p.19, GENERAL PRESS

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• Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!

  Josemaria Escriva

  Blessed, Catholic, Rosary

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

  Benjamin Britten

  Music, Beautiful, Musical Life

  Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber

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• What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony, he has escaped it more than I. And he escapes it more easily than I. The truth isn't with him or with me, because it isn't with anyone, but happiness does belong to him.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Reading, Book

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• The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Kind, Surprise

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• You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, World, Picnics

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Morning, Father

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton (chapter IV), 1908.

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• It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay.

  Baroness Orczy

  Gay, Water, Rolling

  Baroness Orczy (2013). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.151, House of Stratus

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• I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sex, Sleep, Heart

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• If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

  Amy Seimetz

  Moving, Sitting Still, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony.

  Noah Wyle

  Jobs, Guy, Worried

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• Le charme de la nouveaute  , peu a'   peu tombant comme un ve" t ement, laissait voir a'   nu l'e  ternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les me"  mes formes et le me"  me langage. The charm of novelty, falling little by little like a robe, revealed the eternal monotony of passion, which has always the same forms and the same language.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Fall, Passion, Littles

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• The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone,The long hotel, acutely white,Against the after-sunset lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.

  Arthur Symons

  Sunset, Autumn, Air

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• No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

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• I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.

  James Laughlin

  Break Up, Block, Writing

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• A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

  Ivor Novello

  Home, Giving, Cinema

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• Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Sorry, Years, Gone

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Mistake, Hero

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• There is one fault that I must find
  With the twentieth century.
  And I'll put it in a couple of words;
  Too adventury.
  What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony
  If anyone's gotony.

  Ogden Nash

  Couple, Nice, Drinking

  Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

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