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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

  Inspirational, Patience, Years

  Assorted Prose (1965) "Confessions of a Wild Bore"

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• Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

  Lord Byron

  Two, Bores You, Bored

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• It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Prayer, Literature

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Reserves, Tedious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Bored, Boring, Being Bored

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• Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Cemetery, Stills, Walking

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• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

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• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Spiritual, War

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.131, Vintage

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• If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Understanding, Secret, Enough

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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

  Boredom, Oneself, Unimportant

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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

  Book, Reading, Animal

  Notebooks (1956) "Minority Report"

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• I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Bores You, Boredom

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Boredom: the desire for desires.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Boredom, Desire, Enthusiasm

  "Anna Karenina". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1877.

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• One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Boredom, Boring, Amusing

  "My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings".

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• I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Weather, Climate

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.24, Penguin

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• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

  Warren Buffett

  Real, Believe, Men

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• I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

  Louis C. K.

  Travel, Bores You, Useless Things

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• The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

  Jonathan Davis

  Song, Real, Kids

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• The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

  Charles Dickens

  Past, Bores You, Dragons

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• I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

  Elvis Presley

  Bores You, Stories, Too Much

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• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Apology, Later In Life, Feet

  "The Crack-Up". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936.

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• A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

  Henry Ford

  Humor, Boredom, Deep Thought

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• A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

  Francis Picabia

  Work, Gadgets, Lasts

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• He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Sarcastic, Graves

  In Max Beerbohm Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1920) appendix 4

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• The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Atheism, Proof

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.311, Knopf

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