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Quotes about Dullness

"HE IS NOT ONLY DULL IN HIMSELF; BUT THE,
CAUSE OF DULLNESS IN OTHERS."
SAMUEL FOOTE
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THE DEVIL'S
NAME IS
DULLNESS.
Robert Edward Lee
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How strange too and unfamiliar
to think that one had been loved,
that one's presence had once
had the power to make a
difference between happiness
and dullness in another's day.
Graham Greene
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IT'S EXTRAORDINARY HOW
WE GO THROUGH LIFE wlTH
EYES HALF SHUT, WITH
DULL EARS, WITH DORMANT
THOUGHTS. PERHAPS IT'S
JUST AS WELL• AND IT MAY
BE THAT IT THIS VERY
DULLNESS THAT MAKES LIFE
TO THE INCALCULABLE
MAJORITY SO SUPPORTABLE
AND SO WELCOME.
JOSEPH Cm.1RAD
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You begin saving the world by saving
one man at a time; all else is
grandiose romanticism or politics.
Chama Buhupski
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There are
no rules in
filmmaking. Only sins.
And the cardinal sin
is dullness.
Frank Capra
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DULLNESS N MATTERS OF
GOVERNMENT IS A GOOD
SIGN, AND NOT A BAD ONE
- IN PARTICULAR, DULLNESS
IN PARLIAMENTARY
GOVERNMENT IS A TEST OF
ITS EXCELLENCE, AN
INDICATION OF ITS SUCCESS.
WAL Tn BAGH-OT
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
Alexander Pope
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"THE DEVIL'S NAME IS DULLNESS."
ROBERT E. LEE
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"THIS DULLNESS OF VISION REGARDING THE
IMPORTANCE OF THE GENERAL WELFARE TO
THE INDIVIDUAL IS THE MEASURE OF THE
FAILURE OF OUR SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES TO
TEACH THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF
GENUINE DEMOCRACY."
WALLACE
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No degree of dullness can
safeguard a work against the
determination of critics to find it
fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
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No, when light winged toys of feathered
cupid seel with wanton dullness my
speculative and officed instruments, that
my disports and taint my business, let
housewives make a skillet of my helm,
and all indign and base adversities make
head against my estimation!
William Shakespeare
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DON'T LET
ANYONE
EVER
DULL YOUR
SPARKLE
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Let GO
OF THE PEOPLE WHO
DULL YOUR SHINE
POISON YOUR
AND BRING YOU DRAMA.
CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
TO ISSUES
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"DULLNESS IS THE ONLY CRIME FOR WHICH AN
EDITOR OUGHT TO BE HUNG."
JOSEPHUS DANIELS
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DULLNESS IN MATTERS OF
GOVERNMENT IS A GOOD
SIGN, AND NOT A BAD
ONE - IN PARTICULAR,
DULLNESS IN
PARLIAMENTARY
GOVERNMENT IS A TEST
OF ITS EXCELLENCE, AN
INDICATION OF ITS
SUCCESS.
- WALTER BAGEHOT
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I think what we call the
dullness of things is a disease
in ourselves. Else how could
anyone find an intense
interest in life? And many do.
George Eliot
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Alcohol, taken in sufficient
quantities, may produce all the
effects of drunkenness.
Oscah Wilde
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Dullness is the spice
of life. Which is why
we must always use
other spices.
David Levithan
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In all private quarrels
the duller nature is
triumphant by reason
of dullness
George Eliot
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"I am a woman in process. I'm just
trying like everybody else. I try to
take every conflict, every experience,
and learn from it. Life is never dull."
— Oprah Winfrey
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Security and
safety were the
reward of dullness
Hanif Kureishi
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Let go of the people
who dull your shine,
poison your spirit,
and bring you drama.
Cancel your subscription to their issues.
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Dullness is the enemy. Votes: 4

Philip Johnson
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Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. Votes: 4

Josephus Daniels
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. Votes: 4

Walter Bagehot
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Dullness is a misdemeanour. Votes: 3

Ethel Wilson
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Dullness is a kind of luxury. Votes: 3

Bharati Mukherjee
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness. Votes: 3

Oscar Wilde
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband. Votes: 3

W. Somerset Maugham
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Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had. Votes: 3

Terry Pratchett
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Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices. Votes: 3

David Levithan
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. Votes: 3

Edith Sitwell
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And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling Votes: 3

Wilfred Owen
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If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. Votes: 3

Edith Sitwell
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Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb. Votes: 3

Freddie Mercury
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The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born. Votes: 3

William Plomer
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The devil's name is dullness. Votes: 2

Robert E. Lee
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Votes: 2

Alexander Pope
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Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. Votes: 2

Charles Churchill
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The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image. Votes: 2

Peter Jackson
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. Votes: 2

George Eliot
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He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others. Votes: 2

Samuel Foote
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. Votes: 2

Harold Rosenberg
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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. Votes: 2

Richard Powers
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This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. Votes: 2

Henry A. Wallace
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You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen to them and around them, and crime is the ideal genre for making this come about. Votes: 2

Liz Williams
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The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. Votes: 2

Burl Ives
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Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau
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Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin
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Security and safety were the reward of dullness. Votes: 0

Hanif Kureishi
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If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness... Votes: 0

Shirley Conran
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare
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We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. Votes: 0

Aldo Leopold
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There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness. Votes: 0

Frank Capra
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Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse). Votes: 0

Mike Curran
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I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration. Votes: 0

Andre Agassi
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What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank. Votes: 0

Charles Lamb
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Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan
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A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. Votes: 0

George Orwell
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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau
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The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. Votes: 0

Dorothy Parker
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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton
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For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder Votes: 0

Henry Rollins
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Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. Votes: 0

Anita Loos
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Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small. Votes: 0

Franz Grillparzer
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society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people. Votes: 0

Geraldine Jewsbury
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It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege. Votes: 0

Adolph Saphir
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Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence. Votes: 0

John of Kronstadt
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Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it. Votes: 0

Samuel Beckett
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Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness. Votes: 0

Margaret Fuller
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The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive. Votes: 0

Jan Tschichold
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Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor. Votes: 0

George Eliot
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I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do. Votes: 0

George Eliot
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Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world? Votes: 0

William Makepeace Thackeray
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You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance. Votes: 0

William Bernbach
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence. Votes: 0

George Santayana
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We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion. Votes: 0

Hildegard of Bingen
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Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise. Votes: 0

George Crabbe
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Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan
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How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day. Votes: 0

Graham Greene
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt
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An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable. Votes: 0

E. M. Forster
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Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for my knowledge and understanding. Why? What in God's name did they want of me? Votes: 0

Daniel Keyes
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Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none. Votes: 0

Rose Kennedy
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There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf
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The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era. Votes: 0

Frederick Lenz
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The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!"

Bryan Kest
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Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me from the dullness of mind, and transform habit and routine into vibrant times of worship.

Jack W. Hayford
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We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

Freya Stark
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With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

Shirley Conran
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What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.

Christian Wiman
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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ...

Ellen Glasgow
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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.

William Butler Yeats
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It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.

Joseph Conrad
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The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows.

William James
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For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

Tennessee Williams
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Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don’t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, “honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.” Good to remember…

Elif Safak
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Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint. It is equally true that these qualities need to be infused wiht a certain spirit and vitality, or they degenerate into dullness and mediocrity.

Stanley Morison
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