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There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and… — Camille Paglia
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than… — Joseph Addison
Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense… — Muriel Spark
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the… — Jane Austen
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
If you have a boring, insipid, mouse-like life where you're just afraid to be or do anything, then you don't bring much into your next… — Frederick Lenz
A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid. — Jean de la Bruyere
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. — William Congreve
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of… — Karl Marx
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid… — William Makepeace Thackeray
When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days,… — Hermann Hesse
How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet. — Anne Rice
Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or… — William Hazlitt
As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless,… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean,… — Joseph Conrad
It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness. — Janet Fitch
To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing… — Georges Bataille
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it.… — Mark Twain
I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull… — Jane Austen
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the… — Rachel Carson
True Love. I’m starting to suspect the concept is pure illusion, an insipid brand name manufactured by Hallmark and Disney.” — Cupcake — Rachel Cohn
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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