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• People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Broken, Tolerance

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• Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn't bored one bit. I didn't really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved... To hear what Nana had to say about herself. - Nana Komatsu

  Ai Yazawa

  Wind, Snow, Tokyo

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• I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

  Holly Black

  Brother, Sitting, Apartment

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• There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.

  Kerry Greenwood

  Husband, Annoyed, Six Months

  Kerry Greenwood (2004). “Queen of the Flowers”, p.10, Allen & Unwin

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• At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.

  Piers Anthony

  Couple, Journey, Views

  Piers Anthony (1985). “Crewel lye: a caustic yarn”, Del Rey

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• A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ideas, People, Erratic

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• A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Years, Lunch

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.128, Anchor

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• Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Vanity, People

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

  Paul Di Filippo

  Events, Chance, Said

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• And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Pain, Sleep

  Truman Capote (2012). “Answered Prayes”, p.74, Vintage

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• Kyo Sohma: angrily pointing at Yuki Just like I'll beat you one of these days Yuki: looking bored Wait wait I think I've heard this one before

  Natsuki Takaya

  Thinking, Waiting, Fruits Basket

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• Kyo Sohma: One of these days I'll make you say you're sorry Yuki Sohma: looking bored I'm sorry. Kyo Sohma: Dammit That's not what I meant Don't you have any shame Yuki Sohma: still looking annoyed Yes I'm ashamed to be seen with you shouting in public. Kyo Sohma: Oh that's it We're taking this outside Yuki Sohma: still looking annoyed We ARE outside you stupid cat.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Sorry, Stupid, Cat

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• Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.

  Michael Crichton

  Inspiration, Inspire, Succeed

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• Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still.

  Paul Murray

  School, Bully, Problem

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• She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.

  Iain Pears

  Eye, Dark, Thinking

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.95, Penguin

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• Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Unwind, Ecstasy, Ennui

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.50, Arcade Publishing

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• I'm bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone!

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Guitar, Two, Giving

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

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• Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Complicated, Said, Being Bored

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• Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Bird, Bottles, Cold

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.5, Booklassic

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• An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Night, Long Ago

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• Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Husband, Taken, Knitting

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• [Devina] “You know, Adrian, you ever get bored with being a Goody Two-shoes, you could come over to my side.” “Because you have cookies, right.” Those black eyes returned to his own. “And so much more.” “Well, I’m on a diet. Sorry—but thanks for the invite.

  J.R. Ward

  Sorry, Eye, Shoes

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Envy: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.135, Penguin

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• I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Philosophy, Bores You, People

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• Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.

  Liane Moriarty

  Hurt, Children, Divorce

  Liane Moriarty (2010). “What Alice Forgot”, p.367, Penguin UK

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• Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

  Peter Kreeft

  Spiritual, Boredom, Anorexia

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