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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
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William J. Clinton A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. Gertrude Stein 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 After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her. Helen Rowland American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. Edward Albee And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation. Margaret Cavendish Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Francis Bacon As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we? Hugh Laurie Baseball is dull only to dull minds. Red Barber Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! William Butler Yeats Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. William Congreve Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. John Dos Passos Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. Alfred Hitchcock Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. John Bates Clark Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. Aphra Behn England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America. Gerald Scarfe Fiction is life with the dull bits left out. Clive James 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 Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. Karl Marx |
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