#dull

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. ↗

— A. E. Housman

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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. ↗

— Edward Albee

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A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Hilaire Belloc

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With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock. ↗

— Chris Brown

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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. ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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