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Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

Dylan Thomas
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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Betty Friedan
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. -John Updike
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Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Mary Renault
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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Dylan Thomas
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? -Sir Arthur Helps
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger
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What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Gerald Brenan
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Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. -Ambrose Bierce
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Charlotte Whitton
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There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. -Viggo Mortensen
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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Gian Vincenzo Gravina
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The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Nancy Astor
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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -George Saunders
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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

W. R. Inge
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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Frank Moore Colby
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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. -Bert Leston Taylor
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

H. L. Mencken
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Dorothy Parker
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Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom. -Ruth Gordon
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Sooner barbarity than boredom.

Theophile Gautier
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It's long hours of boredom, punctuated by moments of, 'Wow! What did we find?!

Steve Simpson
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.  -William Phillips
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Boredom is the only downside.

Simon Wilson
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One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Muriel Spark
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Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. -Leo Stein
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It keeps the boredom away.

Leon Deemer
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Boredom is a big factor. When it's just a job, it's time to leave.

Dory Hollander
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How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. -William Gaddis
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