Top 100 Quotes About Dull People

#1. Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met.

Zachary Cole Smith

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#2. It was important for a person not to let their body or mind become slow and dull. Oba believed it was important to learn new things. He believed it was important to grow. He thought it was important for a person to use what they had learned. That was how people grew.

Terry Goodkind

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#3. Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.

Sylvia Plath

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#4. I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

Diane Setterfield

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#5. A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I feel that my imagination is enough to kind of keep me happy.

Ronald Frame

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#6. don't understand why people think that every young man ought to go down-town and work ten hours a day for the best twenty years of his life at dull, unimaginative work,

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#7. I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read

Elizabeth Knox

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#8. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

Samuel Johnson

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#9. A lot of people view science as dull or boring, and I think the stance we take, using humour, not taking ourselves too seriously ... I think people enjoy that. I think it's quite refreshing.

Elise Andrew

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#10. You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better chance of holding the viewer. People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull. When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire.

David Ogilvy

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#11. The marvel of television is one means that is being used to try and turn society into a uniform mush. The manipulation and thought control inexorably continues. Mankind is being rinsed out into a group of dull moralists who convince themselves that they are good people.

Erich Von Daniken

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#12. Canberra was my home for many years, and there's a lot to love about it. It has a small population with a strong sense of community and is top-heavy with interesting, highly educated, socially progressive people - the opposite of the stereotypical image of dull public servants.

Judy Horacek

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#13. Ask yourself, 'Who are the secure ones, the comfortable, the eternally cheerful?' I'll tell you the answer: only those with dull vision-the common people and the children

Irvin D. Yalom

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#14. No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

Franz Grillparzer

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#15. Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

Heinrich Heine

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#16. You're hard sometimes, but you're genuine and easy to love. You give people everything you have to give, Silas. You're a rough diamond amongst pearls. You look like a dirty stone amongst the sheen, but your value far exceeds the silky dull shine of a pearl.

Criss Copp

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#17. Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Edna Ferber

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#18. The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

David Riesman

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#19. The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

Charles Bukowski

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#20. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

D.E. Stevenson

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#21. Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Oscar Wilde

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#22. How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible

C.S. Lewis

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#23. All night, I talked to other people. I didn't look in his direction, but I always knew where he was. I was painfully aware of him. When he was nearby, my body hummed. When he was away, there was this dull ache. With him near, I felt everything.

Jenny Han

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#24. My favorite quote...from Alfred Hitchcock, of all people...

"A great story is life with the dull parts taken out.

Richard W. Perhacs

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#25. I sit down on the curb, outside the Opera. People passing look at me. I will wait here for a hundred years. Or until the hot meat of romance is cooled by the dull gravy of common sense once more

Donald Barthelme

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#26. Yes; your house is dull enough to drive people to think.

Alexandre Dumas

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#27. It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people - the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself.

Edith Wharton

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#28. A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.

Mark Haddon

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#29. There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

Thomas Sowell

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#30. The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

Wilkie Collins

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#31. People who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

Kate Morton

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#32. The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

Leo Tolstoy

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#33. If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

Neil Jordan

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#34. And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life
not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#35. Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.

Irma S. Rombauer

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#36. A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

George Orwell

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#37. Dull people don't write interesting books. But they sure as hell can write them thick and fast.

Abram Gitspof

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#38. It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really.

Dave Rowntree

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#39. We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won't all come true; we won't always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.

Tommy Douglas

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#40. People's lives in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable - deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.

Alice Monro

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#41. We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

Joseph Addison

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#42. I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

George Michael

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#43. You shouldn't be embarrassed by the things you do because that's who you are. Your quirks are what separate you from all of the dull, regular and boring people who all look and act the same as everyone else.

Benjamin Jones

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#44. Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would find this a pretty dull way to spend an evening, but I'm not one of them. This is my life, and it's nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it.

Nick Hornby

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#45. If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

Sue Monk Kidd

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#46. A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down. Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

E.B. White

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#47. He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.

Edith Wharton

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#48. First things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void.

T.D. Jakes

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#49. Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young.

Erika Lopez

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#50. Some people's spirits, but some of them will never be dull not be blunted.

Mehmet Kececi

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#51. The universe is a giant mind. Some people have the ability to tap into that mind, we call them psychic. Others don't, we call them dull ... but they have potential.

Frederick Lenz

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#52. Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

Eric Hoffer

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#53. For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus.

Thomas M. Disch

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#54. There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

Robert Henri

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#55. There are people who say life is dull. Just a series of mundane events. But I can't agree. Things happen. Bet on that.

Victor LaValle

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#56. I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull.

Stan Lee

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#57. 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

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#58. People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

Rowan Atkinson

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#59. I like to prowl ordinary places.
I feel sorry for us all or glad for us
all
caught alive together
and awkward in that way.
there's nothing better than the joke
of us
the seriousness of us
the dullness of us

Charles Bukowski

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#60. Edward was at the stage of drunkenness in which the ego glows like a coal, and brilliant people become more inspired, but in which dull people, fired by the same inspiration, become only more dull.

William Styron

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#61. An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

Michael Leunig

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#62. The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and gives us the lands beyond.

Isaac Asimov

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#63. I like to study the question or the problem or the opportunity in hand, work with the team to come with the right answer, make a decision, and act upon it. Some people have said that, actually, today they pretty much like their bankers dull.

Michael Corbat

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#64. The first thing I noticed was the gun in his hands, and it wasn't the sort of gun a beginner carries around with him. A big dull black German Mauser 7.63. One of those economical guns; the bullet goes clear through three people at once.

Alistair MacLean

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#65. How dull it is to have people defining you.

Octavia E. Butler

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#66. I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.

Harmony Korine

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#67. I'd love to work in a restaurant. You get to meet new people all the time and constantly socialize. There are no dull moments when you're serving. It would definitely be a fun job to have.

Justin Chon

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#68. I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.

Laozi

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#69. No longer just "a dull bunch of grey buildings with grey people who worked with slide rules and wrote long equations on blackboards," NASA, the public now believed, was all that stood between them and a Red sky.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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#70. She had found there were very few genuinely dull people; the trick was to ask them the right questions.

Kate Morton

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#71. In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring ...

Andre Gide

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#72. And Anatole, with the partiality dull-witted people have for any conclusion they have reached by their own reasoning, repeated the argument he had already put to Dolokhov a hundred times.

Leo Tolstoy

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#73. There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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#74. And loving a new person might even eventually dull the pain of having lost the people you have loved before, even if it didn't happen as quickly as you wanted it to. (p 99)

Bonnie Jo Campbell

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#75. Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

Edith Evans

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#76. The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy;
The books that people talk about we never can recall;
And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Carolyn Wells

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#77. 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

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#78. People tend to be exquisitely precise when describing pain. We don't just say it hurts, we say it throbs or aches; it's a burning, wrenching, gnawing sensation; it's sharp or dull; it chafes; it stings. But where pain specifies, joy generalizes. It was great! we say. Terrific! Beautiful! Fantastic!

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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#79. Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Robert Crumb

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#80. If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we'd live in a dull world.

Tom McCarthy

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#81. I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.

Ice Cube

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#82. It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

Matt Lucas

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#83. An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.

Shirley Maclaine

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#84. Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

Mason Cooley

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#85. Rewards do not undermine people's intrinsic motivation for dull tasks because there is little or no intrinsic motivation to be undermined.

Daniel H. Pink

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#86. I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.

Mia Kirshner

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#87. It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

Aldous Huxley

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#88. In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#89. I cannot handle dull, lazy, morose people. I have been like that since childhood.

Ravi Teja

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#90. Most people considered him quite dull and negligible, but he possessed the supreme virtue in William's eyes of not objecting to William.

Anonymous

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#91. I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often - dull.

Campbell Scott

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#92. G.K. Chesterton said: People are equal in the same way pennies are equal. Some are bright, others are dull; some are worn smooth, others are sharp and fresh. But all are equal in value for each penny bears the image of the sovereign, each person bears the image of the King of Kings.

Tim Chester

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#93. I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

Bobby Fischer

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#94. I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Marilyn Monroe

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#95. Now I will be anything else you please, except dull. You may say I have been dull already? As I am an honest woman, I don't agree with you. There are some people who bring dull minds to their reading - and them blame the writer for it. I say no more.

Wilkie Collins

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#96. Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.

Rita Mae Brown

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#97. I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile.

Roone Arledge

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#98. Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Virginia Woolf

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#99. The public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important.

Leo Tolstoy

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#100. Interesting," said I, "is a term I reserve to describe people or things so dull or ordinary, that I can find no more promising attribution.

Syrie James

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