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• We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Weather, Important

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.439

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• But here's the sunset of a tedious day,
  These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest,
  And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.

  Robert Herrick

  Sunset, Two, Wish

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• how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

  Agatha Christie

  Retirement, Imagine, Monotony

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries”, Avenel

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• However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Character, Stories, Duration

  "Furniture" by Johnathan Lethem, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Film, Bigs

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• My backstory is so tedious. I hope the interviews are turning a corner now.

  Ray LaMontagne

  "Ray LaMontagne: Digging Deep And Doing What He Does" by Ellen Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2010.

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• I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.

  Billie Piper

  Reading, Mind, Littles

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

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• There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Average, Paper

  Francis Crick (1995). “Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

  Megan Abbott

  Humorous, Thinking, Views

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• Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

  Hugh Mackay

  Perfect, Imagine, Persons

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• What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

  Homer

  Tales, Repetition

  Homer (1873). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.207

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• The first animals to be successfully domesticated were dogs, which were a big help because they would bark all night and fetch thrown sticks, thereby freeing humans from having to perform these tedious yet vital tasks.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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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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• For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

  Richard Asher

  Science, Doctors, Careers

  British Medical Journal 2: 502 (1958)

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• Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspiration, Reading, Home

  "Hitch-22". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. 2010.

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• When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Giving, Needs

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• Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.

  Jack Edmonds

  Running, Thinking, Interesting

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• I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously.

  Mu Xin

  Two, Would Be, Three

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• Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

  John Dryden

  Sight, Decay, Woe

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1745, Delphi Classics

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• You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Giving, Hours

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.176

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• I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

  Martin Luther

  Long, Preacher, Preaching

  Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.238

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• Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

  Honore de Balzac

  Admiration

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• nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

  Ouida

  Wit, Trifles, Bores

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

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• The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Gay, Tone, Brilliant

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• I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.

  Terry McMillan

  Reading, Three, Four

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