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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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• Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

  Agnes Varda

  Feminist

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sides, Sincerity, Seriousness

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.9, OUP Oxford

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• Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.

  Victor Hugo

  Horse, Journey, Hands

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• Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Adults, Patient, Study

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.

  Pauline Kael

  Doors, Years, People

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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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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• 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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• The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

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

  Ian Rankin

  Scotland, Colleagues, Tiresome

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

  Moliere

  Happiness, Should Have, Unbroken

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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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• 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 penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

  Nancy Astor

  Success, Women, Bores You

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

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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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• Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Writing, Long, People

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• Never ask a bore a question.

  Mason Cooley

  Asks

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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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• 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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• 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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