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• What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

  John Oliver Killens

  Thinking, Color, America

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• Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wise, Intelligent, Men

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind. They destroy their persuasiveness; you would not believe a man was very intent on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at every other step. ... When virtuosity gets the upper hand of your theme, or is better than your idea, it is time to quit.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Men, Ideas

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• To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Mind, Resorts

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• We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Money, Men, Decay

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential.

  Danny Baker

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

  August Bournonville

  Beautiful, Dance, Novelty

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• The thing that bubbles up the most when I'm around other people is that I feel a joy of being alive. But I also am a very sensitive person and have many heavier feelings. It can be tiresome after a while to only do comedy, especially after you grow as a person. It starts to feel like you're playing an older version of yourself.

  Jenny Slate

  Sensitive Person, People, Joy

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• Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in the present moment, the mind flings us into tawdry and tiresome elaborations of past and future. This craving to be otherwise, to be elsewhere, permeates the body, feeling, perceptions, will - consciousness itself. It is like the background radiation from the big bang of birth, the aftershock of having erupted into existence.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Past, Feelings, Mind

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• Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Lying, Irrelevance, People

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

  William Graham Sumner

  Stories, Repetition

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.27, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or "Anna Karenina" when the obvious answer is "a well equipped boat and a crew to sail me off the island and back home where I can play all the card games and read all the Russian novels I want.

  Daniel Handler

  Home, Islands, Games

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• It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Thinking, Ideas, Dignity

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

  Agatha Christie

  Loyalty, Thinking, Virtue

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Peril at End House (Poirot)”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• Abenthy gave me an appraising look. I'd been waiting for it. It was the look that said, "You don't sound as young as you look." I hoped he'd come to grips with it fairly soon. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Children, Waiting, Sound

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves in the sea within days. So many pop songs tell of this terrible, tiresome love that they want to last forever. But that just makes me think of long-life milk, acrid and fake. Love should be like a movie trailer. Even if the film's a stinker, you get the best laughs and the biggest explosions in the space of two minutes.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Girl, Blow

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2012). “Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Other Stories”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome… except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.

  Stephen King

  Love, Strong, Kissing

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he drinks too much and he always runs away. Since the Rules allow him to make Jokes, he will excuse his behaviour in a variety of comical ways. Physically he is stunted and not at all handsome, although he usually dresses flamboyantly. He tends to wear hats with feathers in. You will discover he is very vain. But, if you can avoid smacking him, you will come to tolerate if not love him. He will contrive, in some cowardly way, to play a major part in saving the world.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Running, Men, Play

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• When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Games, People

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Long, God Love, One Love

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• [About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

  Ian Rankin

  Scotland, Bores, Colleagues

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• It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.

  C. S. Lewis

  Nice, Boys, Different

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal

  Katherine Applegate

  Mom, Regret, Stupid

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• This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

  Neal Stephenson

  Faculty Members, People, Research

  Neal Stephenson (2009). “Cryptonomicon”, p.97, Harper Collins

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