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• I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

  Harriet Martineau

  Monotonous Life, Stills

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.365, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

  Evelyn Waugh

  War, Half, World

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• Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

  Charles Dickens

  Change, Caring, Men

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit ... With a Frontispiece, from a Drawing by F. Stone”, p.180

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• In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

  Richard Matheson

  Dream, World, Horror

  Richard Matheson (2017). “Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday”, p.90, RosettaBooks

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• As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Cutting, Rose, Dresses

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

  James Joyce

  Children, Play, Desire

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.21, Courier Dover Publications

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• Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Father, Adults, Trouble

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.11, Bantam

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• To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

  Agatha Christie

  Adventure, Dedication, Monotonous Life

  "Perfect partners in crime: Tommy and Tuppence" by Sarah Crompton, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2015.

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• Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Suffering, Way, Taste

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• Training can be monotonous, and it is hard work, but you never lose sight of why you are doing it. Every single effort of every single session counts in the months and years leading up to a big event.

  Chris Hoy

  Hard Work, Sight, Years

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

  Henry Miller

  Country, Divorce, Men

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• On my hike my brain was left to wander. That was often maddening because it was tedious and monotonous sometimes, but then my the mind would take over, and that's when I'd start hearing the music in my head or thinking deeply about people I know or things that I didn't even know I remembered anymore. Those thoughts would be there. I wouldn't have had them otherwise.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Thinking, People, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• America sometimes resembles, at least from the point of view of a black man, an exceedingly monotonous minstrel show; the same dances, same music, same jokes. One has done (or been) the show so long that one can do it in one’s own sleep.

  James A. Baldwin

  Sleep, Men, Views

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• [First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

  Nora Roberts

  Skills, Tolerance, Lines

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• Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

  William Faulkner

  Strange, Folly, Just One

  William Faulkner (2011). “Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner”, p.91, Vintage

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• The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken a different view of the matter. We all tend to see the way others are alike and how we differ, and it's probably just as well we do, since that prevents a great deal of confusion. But perhaps we should remind ourselves from time to time that ours is a very partial view, and that the world is full of a great deal more variety than we ever manage to take in.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Taken, Views, Confusion

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• When anything is easy, it becomes very monotonous for me. But, if I can find something that is really going to take all of my body and all of my mind to really even come close to pulling off, that sounds like fun.

  Dane DeHaan

  Fun, Mind, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Running, Men, Hands

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.458

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• I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

  Luke Evans

  Running, Crazy, Cardio

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Fun, Bored, Sometimes

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• The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.

  Learned Hand

  Inspiration, Important, Routine

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

  Napoleon Hill

  Taken, May, Planning

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.81, Penguin

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• The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Song, Sea, Forever

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1873). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.309

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• A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . .

  Erwin Chargaff

  Writing, Men, Literary Genre

  Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.61, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

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• I think the films and the paintings erase each other. The paintings are extremely slow and constantly going on in the studio - they're constantly regenerating themselves in this slow, monotonous way that's a physical struggle and can be a pain in the ass. They're all based on very specific math and diagrams. And the films, when I'm making them, are very fast, very collaborative, with a lot of improvisation.

  Sarah Morris

  Pain, Struggle, Math

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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