Dull Quotes
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“girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
deserve them
besides
there is
no way
I would welcome
the
intolerable
dull
senseless hell
you would bring
me
and
I wish you
luck
in bed
and
out
but not
in
mine
thank
you.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
deserve them
besides
there is
no way
I would welcome
the
intolerable
dull
senseless hell
you would bring
me
and
I wish you
luck
in bed
and
out
but not
in
mine
thank
you.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“It鈥檚 hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or loss of interest, and the storyline becomes barren and desolate, insipidly dull, turning into a threadbare act with the same trite modus operandi. 鈥淭he same procedure as every year, James!鈥� ("Things needing to be changed")”
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“Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.”
― A Map of the Known World
― A Map of the Known World

“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”
― Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
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”
― Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

“Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality; there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.”
― The Simple Art of Murder
― The Simple Art of Murder

“She felt a bored indifference toward the immediate world around her...She took it as a regrettable accident, to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged

“the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist.”
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“I have been mostly dull lately. Like a butter knife. And hoping to find, when called upon, something more in my arsenal than a butter knife. Unless my opponent is actually butter. Then that would be fine. Room temperature butter.”
― Letters to Emma Bowlcut
― Letters to Emma Bowlcut

“The civilian world was a dull place, a tired three-piece orchestra, waiting for the word 'fun'.”
― The Hireling
― The Hireling

“Does everyone here introduce themselves with their languages?" Ramy asked.
"Of course," Vimal said. "Your languages determine how interesting you are. Orientalists are fascinating. Classicists are dull.”
― Babel
"Of course," Vimal said. "Your languages determine how interesting you are. Orientalists are fascinating. Classicists are dull.”
― Babel

“In this connection I must mention too a not altogether rational idea which I had nourished more or less vaguely for a long time: the notion that before I could achieve greatness as a writer I would have to pass through some ordeal. For this ordeal I had waited in vain. Even total war (I was never in uniform) failed to ruffle my life. I seemed doomed to quietness.”
― The Black Prince
― The Black Prince

“I don't remember starting out that morning, but I do remember trying to sleep and feeling quite alone except for a dull, bittersweet ache.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind

“It was hard not to dwell on that shadow in my heart, the shadow that trailed my every step. I hadn't felt like painting since I'd arrived- and that place inside me where all those colours and shapes and lights had come from had become still and quiet and dull.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
― A Court of Thorns and Roses

“The geology museum had a wonderful dullness." We make our way over to a case full of geodes, before Oliver pauses transfixed. "I love the idea of something dull on the outside, and spectacular and crystalline on the inside.”
― And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
― And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks

“Her words were like knives to his conscience, and as much as avarice dulled their blades, her tongue sharpened them.”
― Hopebreaker
― Hopebreaker

“Then a thought occurs to me that nice can turn to annoying or dull if a person isn鈥檛 careful, or stops paying attention.”
― Tied Within
― Tied Within

“And I am so dull and dirty. Like a small brown toad. He does not see me. How could he see me, when she is before him? Glowing and gilded in gold.”
― Song of the Sparrow
― Song of the Sparrow
“And it's way too... not beige to come from your kitchens."
"A neutral palette is universally appropriate."
That's not how you pronounce 'dull.”
― Battle Royal
"A neutral palette is universally appropriate."
That's not how you pronounce 'dull.”
― Battle Royal

“Good God,鈥� Derrick says. 鈥業 cannot believe I agreed to accompany you. I take back my words. Human dancing is dull! When is he going to throw you over his head?”
― The Falconer
― The Falconer

“Bright Light Adaptation Disease (BLAD) should be suspected in anyone that is from a dull climate that has spent significant time living in a sunny environment. They may be experiencing fatigue and depression from the much lower indoor lighting levels.”
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“Interpreting events;' interpreting the universally visible, entirely INdubitable Revelation of the Author of this Universe: how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know? Poor wretch, one sees what kind of meaning HE educes from Man's History, this long while past, and has got all the world to believe of it along with him. Unhappy Dryasdust, thrice-unhappy world that takes Dryasdust's reading of the ways of God!”
― History Of Friedrich II of Prussia Volumes 1 - 9: Frederick the Great
― History Of Friedrich II of Prussia Volumes 1 - 9: Frederick the Great

“Katarina shrugged, for want of something better to say. It just seemed so鈥o dull. They had done it all before, knew the routine, and that left her bored to tears. There was so much in the world they had never explored, so much that had been hidden from them. Katarina could not recall having a conversation with someone new in months. Years, perhaps.”
― Eight Maids a Milking
― Eight Maids a Milking
“There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow”
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