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I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

~ Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Cynicism Drudgery Optimism Purpose Work

He was regarded merely as an eccentric employee of indifferent merit, and his post of deputy chief clerk was the highest he would ever reach. Well aware of this, he made it a rule never to show any zeal, except in special circumstances. It is true that in these cases his zeal was clothed with a spirit of vengeance directed against the whole human race—this being his second favourite occupation. Petitbidois would have liked to hold the reins of power. This being beyond his sphere, he utilized the small driblets of authority which came his way for the purpose of casting ridicule upon established law and order, by making it act as a sort of unintelligent and, if possible, malicious Providence. 'The world is an idiot place anyway,' he would say, 'so why worry? Life is just a lottery. Let us leave the decision to chance.

~ Gabriel Chevallier

Gabriel Chevallier Drudgery Misanthropy Petitbidois Work Zeal

Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.

~ Sweety Shinde

Sweety Shinde Drudgery Passion Skill

She wondered which would be worse -- to belong to the group assigned to lifelong drudgery, or to be on the other side, thinking you deserved everything the universe by sheer good luck had tossed in your lap, never realizing your whole life was based on lies.

~ Jo Victor

Jo Victor Alex Class Literature Class Struggle Drudgery Lies Mistress Privilege Romance

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks Drudgery Work Worship

Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cleaning lady. A holiday with Theo and the children represented two weeks of domestic and maternal drudgery.

~ Amanda Craig

Amanda Craig Childcare Cleaning Domestic Drudgery Holiday House Housework Mom Motherhood Mum Tidying

Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for something. When we have neither longing, I think that is what they call living for the moment.

~ Robert Black

Robert Black Drudgery Mass Hypnotism Mass Manipulation Slavery The Control Sickness The Treadmill Work

Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part of me.

~ Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy Disappointment Drudgery Repetition Routine
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