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• Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

  Gerald Brenan

  Bores, Oneself, Unimportant

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• Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Art, Past, Bores You

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

  Walker Percy

  Blessing, Self, Bored

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Mystical Experiences, Bored, Mystical

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• Even boredom has its crises.

  Mason Cooley

  Funny, Blessing, Literature

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• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, People, Secret

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• I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

  Heinrich Heine

  Book, Reading, Blessing

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• When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Bores You, People, Bored

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

  William Weld

  Blessing, Desperate, Forgiven

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• When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

  Walter Annenberg

  Blessing, Ties, Laziness

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• Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

  Wayne Dyer

  People, Life Is, Boring

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

  William S. Burroughs

  Deviants, Dies

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

  Douglas Horton

  Reflection, People, Boring

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• The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Fear, Bores You

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• In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Home, Sleep, Two

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9406, Delphi Classics

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• There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Men, Quality, Proud

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• Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

  Samuel Johnson

  Long, Return, Helping

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• Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Blessing, Mind, Ears

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• When a thing bores you, do not do it.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Bores You, Bores

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• There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Blessing, Goes On, Rebirth

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• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Light, Greed

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• The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Existential, Truth Is

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.

  Lenny Bruce

  Funny, Hate, Comedian

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

  Lin Yutang

  Blessing, Men, Differences

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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