"I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring."

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Lydia Davis

#Long Quotes #Boring Quotes

“He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.”
“I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.”
“People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.”
“If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.”
“My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.”
“Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.”
“Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.”

Source : Sir James Mackintosh (1836). “Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.411
“Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.”

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