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• Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Mean, Profession

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• Being in love is an exhausting business.

  Iris Murdoch

  Being In Love, Love Is

  Iris Murdoch (1962). “An Unofficial Rose: A Novel”

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• Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Friendship, Jobs, Dangerous

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up with, whether it was African music or pop music. It took me away from being overly self-conscious about what I was doing.

  St. Lucia

  Dark, Self, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status updates, or maybe some carefully curated vacation photos. There's something exhausting about that after a while. I found myself wanting to hear voices.

  Brad Listi

  Tired, Vacation, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.

  Garth Greenwell

  Crazy, Teaching, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I suppose the biggest strain was that Hoodwink is a high-octane character and he's up there like all the time. Once he's on his journey there's no let up for the man, so I actually found it a massively exhausting job to keep that level up.

  Andy Serkis

  Jobs, Character, Journey

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

  Mark Kozelek

  Depressing, Challenges, Stressful

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

  Anne Rice

  Needs, Etc, Film

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no solitude at all in which 'to catch up with myself' I find mentally, physically and spiritually exhausting.

  Miss Read

  Ideas, Solitude, Hell

  Miss Read (2007). “Village Diary”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.

  Elaine Scarry

  Military, War, Pieces

  Elaine Scarry (1985). “The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World”, p.85, Oxford University Press

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• A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.

  Melissa Pritchard

  Real, Heart, Yield

  "Wickedly Savage Passions". Interview with Melissa Mia Hall, www.publishersweekly.com. February 23, 2004.

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• I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold.

  Ally Walker

  Motorcycle, Cold, Aspiration

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• Oh god, success is so exhausting.

  Laurie Simmons

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

  Ann Patchett

  People, Needs, Attention

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Week, Catering, Teach

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• This time I particularly loved because it came from a real experience with my grandchildren. Having them alone alone for the first time for six or seven days and going "Wow, this is exhausting," because when you're not around little ones for a long time, you forget about how much work that is. So I came in and started writing the story that became this movie ['PARENTAL GUIDANCE'].

  Billy Crystal

  Real, Writing, Grandchildren

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

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• I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

  Eva Gabor

  Long, Energy, Workaholic

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• She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a middle of a night I could hear her creaking around the dead house with a pen in one hand, a clipboard and a flashlight in the other, refining her poems, jotting down the lines of a conceit. Writing never came easy for her; it gave her calluses. She never courted the muses, she wrestled them, mauled them all over the house and came up, after weeks of peripatetic labor, with a slim Spencerian sonnet, fourteen lines of imagistic jabberwocky.

  Millard Kaufman

  Writing, Night, Hands

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  Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Jesus, Confusing

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.63, CLC Publications

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• The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Wearing A Mask, Social

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.21, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation

  Julia Kristeva

  Fashion, War, Cities

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• False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.

  Guy Finley

  Real, Real Life, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Jan 20, 2013

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• But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.

  Zhuangzi

  Giving, Tree, Heaven

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• Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Sex, Confusion, Moral

  Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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