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• We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Ghouls, Trying

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• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

  Walter Benjamin

  Dream, Eggs, Boredom

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.149, Harvard University Press

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• I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Use, Lines

  Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) "Studio 54"

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• The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

  Susan Sontag

  Creativity, Men, Boredom

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• Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Blessing, Boredom, Safe

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• There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  I Hate You, Ignorance, People

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• ...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.

  Susan Cain

  Lonely, Strong, Believe

  "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

  Saul Bellow

  Blessing, Boredom, Conviction

  Saul Bellow (2012). “The Adventures of Augie March”, p.646, Penguin UK

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• When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

  Samuel Hoffenstein

  Love, Lonely, Insult

  Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”

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• Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

  Wendy O. Williams

  Hate, People, Behaviour

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

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• I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

  Kit Williams

  Writing, Ideas, Fairy Tale

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• We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.

  Emma Anderson

  Thinking, Done, Never Quit

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• Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

  Neil Innes

  Tired, Kissing, Blow

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• It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.

  Bill Joy

  Tired, I'm Tired, Get Real

  Interview with Bill Joy by Jim Joyce, Unix Review magazine, August, 1984.

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• I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.

  Rhona Mitra

  Air, Want, Next

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• I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

  Dick Wolf

  Walking Away, People, Car

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• I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Perfect, Firsts

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.566, Wordsworth Editions

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• When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Blessing, Swings

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.66, Publishdrive

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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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• I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

  Erich Fromm

  Blessing, Bores You, Boredom

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture”, p.104, Open Road Media

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• Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

  Walker Percy

  Blessing, Self, Boredom

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  People, Worms, Antics

  Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.96, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

  Anna Friel

  Eye, Islands, Years

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

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• I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Book, Reading, Mean

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