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• Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely and without reservation the bullest of bullsh*t that ever there was. It is a senseless delusion that does not even have the benefit of being harmless fun. It is a harmful bore. Harmful to the human spirit, harmful to the dignity and wonder of the real universe and the real power of the mind to think for itself. I hate astrology with a fervor that is almost frightening. - Stephen Fry (when asked what sign he would be if he could create his own zodiac)

  Stephen Fry

  Fun, Real, Hate

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• The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Boredom, Useless

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The last thing you want to do is be a bore. When you wake up in the morning, give yourself a good mirror test. If you look like you’re going to be a sulking, pouting bore, slap yourself in the face before you go out to the office.

  Jack Welch

  Morning, Mirrors, Giving

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• When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Music, Play, Bores You

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• Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Country, Book, Caring

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.49, Penguin UK

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• People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, People, Should

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• unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

  Moliere

  Happiness, Should Have, Unbroken

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• Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

  Vance Havner

  Church Service, Boredom, Twelve

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• [About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

  Ian Rankin

  Scotland, Colleagues, Tiresome

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• A stupid disgusting bore is a guy who has nothing to say, and nonetheless says it anyway.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Guy, Disgusting

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• What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.

  Tennessee Williams

  Mean, Writing, Attention

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.

  Casey Abrams

  Thinking, Skeletons, Want

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• You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Remember You, Remembers You

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.116, Del Rey

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• Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Laughing, Long

  Jean Dubuffet, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1993). “Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Party, Power, Thinking

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• Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

  Elizabeth I

  Bored, Faults, Life Is

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• Plato was a bore.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Plato, Philosophy

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• grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.

  Silvia Tennenbaum

  Gratitude, Grateful, People

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• We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.

  Sybil Thorndike

  Long, People, Giving

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• Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

  Auberon Waugh

  Terrible

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• Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Light, Leaving

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• Never ask a bore a question.

  Mason Cooley

  Asks

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

  Eugene Delacroix

  Bores You, Boredom

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• Big book, a big bore.

  Callimachus

  Book, Boredom, Bigs

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