“The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.”
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
As quoted in Know Your Limits — Then Ignore Them (2000) by John Mason, p. 46
“[T]ime passed and there was really no romance in life anymore, only the tedious tranquility of marriage without excitement or curiosity, the dull routine of making a comfortable living with nothing to nourish the imagination.”
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book One: The Revelation of the Deity
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