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Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, writing, common sense, sense

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Quote by Francis Bacon about anger, man

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull....

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

Quote by Dean Acheson about politics

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about existence, problems, mind, work

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about film, life

He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think...

He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nation, people

C-4 can make a dull day fun.

C-4 can make a dull day fun.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, day

Pinking shears get dull just by looking at them.

Pinking shears get dull just by looking at them.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

Clipper blades will become dull only when the horse is...

Clipper blades will become dull only when the horse is half finished.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull...

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

Quote by John Dos Passos about advertising, eyes

As every child knows, chemistry with nothing stronger...

As every child knows, chemistry with nothing stronger than vinegar soon becomes dull.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about children, nothing

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody...

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.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about truth, conflict, experience, woman, life

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and...

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Quote by Joseph Conrad about delusion

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking...

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Quote by Edna Ferber about past, affair, people, contentment

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Quote by Clive James about happiness, fiction, life

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about opinion, perfection

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