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Familiar Quotations

Monotonies

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.–Mahatma Gandhi

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.–Eleanor Roosevelt

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.–Margaret Sackville

Monotonies – "Boredom"

Boredom sets into boring minds.–Anonymous

Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life.–Anonymous

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.–Anonymous

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.–Jean Baudrillard

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.–Cecil Beaton

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.–Walter Benjamin

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?–John Berger

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Monotonies 1
• Monotonies – "Boredom" 1
• Monotonies – "Dullness" 2
• Monotonies – "Tedium" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Monotonies 3
• Monotonies – "Boredom" 12
• Monotonies – "Break" 12
• Monotonies – "Broke" 14
• Monotonies – "Change" 15
• Monotonies – "Characterized" 16
• Monotonies – "Country" 17
• Monotonies – "Days" 18
• Monotonies – "Deadly" 19
• Monotonies – "Dullness" 20
• Monotonies – "End" 20
• Monotonies – "Evenness" 20
• Monotonies – "Events" 21
• Monotonies – "Excitement" 21
• Monotonies – "Existence" 22
• Monotonies – "Far" 22
• Monotonies – "Few" 23
• Monotonies – "Greatest" 23
• Monotonies – "Hours" 24
• Monotonies – "Life" 25
• Monotonies – "Little" 28
• Monotonies – "Men" 30
• Monotonies – "Monotone" 31
• Monotonies – "Night" 31
• Monotonies – "Nothing" 32
• Monotonies – "Place" 33
• Monotonies – "Relief" 34
• Monotonies – "Sameness" 36
• Monotonies – "Sea" 37
• Monotonies – "Soon" 37
• Monotonies – "Tedium" 38
• Monotonies – "Thing" 38
• Monotonies – "Think" 39
• Monotonies – "Thus" 40
• Monotonies – "Varied" 40
• Monotonies – "Voice" 41
• Monotonies – "Voyage" 42
• Monotonies – "Weeks" 42
• Monotonies – "White" 43
• Encyclopedic Usage 44
• Lexicographic Usage 46
• Index 54