"Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top."
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"My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back."
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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
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"There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark."
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"It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull."
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"Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull."
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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm."
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"What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities."
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"Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull."
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"Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull."
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"I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions."
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"I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas."
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"Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently."
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"It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it."
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"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."
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"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."
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"Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved."
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"You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing"
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"You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull."
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