Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. ‘Somebody’s boring me,’ he said, ‘I think it’s me.’
Meaning of the quote
Dylan started talking a lot, but then he stopped. He said that someone was boring him, and he thought that person was actually himself. This quote suggests that Dylan realized he was being too long-winded and boring, and he became self-aware of his own behavior.
More quotes from Dylan Thomas
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
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Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.
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Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.
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An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.
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Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.
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These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn’ fool if they weren’t.
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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
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But time has set its maggot on their track.
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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
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The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.
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I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
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Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. ‘Somebody’s boring me,’ he said, ‘I think it’s me.’
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The function of posterity is to look after itself.
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Do not go gentle into that good night.
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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
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I’ve just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that’s the record.
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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
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Though lovers be lost love shall not.
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When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
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Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
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