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• We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Weather, Important

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.439

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• But here's the sunset of a tedious day,
  These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest,
  And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.

  Robert Herrick

  Sunset, Two, Wish

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• how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

  Agatha Christie

  Retirement, Imagine, Monotony

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries”, Avenel

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• However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Character, Stories, Duration

  "Furniture" by Johnathan Lethem, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Film, Bigs

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• My backstory is so tedious. I hope the interviews are turning a corner now.

  Ray LaMontagne

  "Ray LaMontagne: Digging Deep And Doing What He Does" by Ellen Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2010.

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• I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.

  Billie Piper

  Reading, Mind, Littles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No hay prosa más difícil de entender y más tediosa de leer que el artículo científico medio.

  Francis Crick

  Ciencia, Media, Papel

  Francis Crick (1995). "Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul", p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

  Megan Abbott

  Humorous, Thinking, Views

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• En realidad, no puedo imaginar nada más tedioso que una persona perfecta, sobre todo si fuera alguien que también me exigiera perfección a mí.

  Hugh Mackay

  Perfecto, Imaginar, Personas

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• What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

  Homer

  Tales, Repetition

  Homer (1873). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.207

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• The first animals to be successfully domesticated were dogs, which were a big help because they would bark all night and fetch thrown sticks, thereby freeing humans from having to perform these tedious yet vital tasks.

  Dave Barry

  Divertido, Perro, Humor

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• On my hike my brain was left to wander. That was often maddening because it was tedious and monotonous sometimes, but then my the mind would take over, and that's when I'd start hearing the music in my head or thinking deeply about people I know or things that I didn't even know I remembered anymore. Those thoughts would be there. I wouldn't have had them otherwise.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Pensamiento, Personas, Cerebro

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

  Richard Asher

  Science, Doctors, Careers

  British Medical Journal 2: 502 (1958)

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• El alcohol hace a los demás menos tediosos y a la comida menos insípida, y puede ayudar a proporcionar lo que los griegos llamaban entheos, o el ligero zumbido de la inspiración al leer o escribir. Visitando el Irán de hoy, me encantó descubrir que los ciudadanos se empeñaban en desafiar la prohibición clerical del alcohol, manteniéndolo en sus casas para los visitantes aunque no les gustara especialmente a ellos mismos, y contrabandeándolo con gran brío e ingenio. Estas pequeñas revoluciones afirman lo humano.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspiración, Lectura, Inicio

  "Hitch-22". Libro de Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. 2010.

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• When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Giving, Needs

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• Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.

  Jack Edmonds

  Running, Thinking, Interesting

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• I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously.

  Mu Xin

  Two, Would Be, Three

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• La lástima sólo se queda en los objetos frescos, pero con la tediosa visión de los infortunios decae.

  John Dryden

  Sight, Decay, Woe

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1745, Delphi Classics

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• No puedes darme un ejemplo de un hombre al que se le permita disponer de su propio tiempo que no tenga horas tediosas.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Giving, Hours

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.176

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• No quisiera que los predicadores atormentaran a sus oyentes y los entretuvieran con largas y tediosas predicaciones.

  Martin Luther

  Long, Preacher, Preaching

  Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.238

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• Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

  Honore de Balzac

  Admiración

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• nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

  Ouida

  Wit, Trifles, Bores

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

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• El tono de una buena conversación es brillante y natural; no es tedioso ni frívolo; es instructivo sin pedantería, alegre sin tumultuosidad, pulido sin afectación, galante sin insipidez, chistoso sin equívoco.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Gay, Tone, Brilliant

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• I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.

  Terry McMillan

  Reading, Three, Four

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