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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

—Voltaire

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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

—Henry James

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

—Oscar Wilde

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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.

—Mickey Friedman

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again. … The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

—J. G. Ballard

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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

—George Santayana

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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

—Horace Walpole

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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

—Aldous Huxley

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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English — up to fifty words used in correct context — no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

—Carl Sagan

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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

—Oscar Wilde

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

—Plutarch

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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

—Henry James

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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

—Josh Billings

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested, and the frog dies of it.

—E. B. White

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