Blunt Quotes
The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.67, Penguin UK
Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.
Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.
Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.65, Macmillan
George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.23, Bantam
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1131, BookCaps Study Guides
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 70, 1799.
Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.32, Faber & Faber
Song: Memory Lane, Album: Illmatic, 1994
We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.57, Courier Corporation