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• My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Attitude, Long, People

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• Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.

  George Raveling

  Basketball, Thinking, Old Things

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• It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

  Paul Theroux

  Hero, Novelists, Plot

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• Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Failure, Defeat, Bustle

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Speech, He Man

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

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• Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

  George Saunders

  Goodbye, Crazy, Mad

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• Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

  Daniel Handler

  Black, Reason, Share

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• There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

  Ally Carter

  Revenge, Greed, Doe

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• I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Loneliness, Love You, Desire

  Alessandro Baricco (2013). “Ocean Sea”, p.182, Canongate Books

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• He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

  Jess Walter

  People, Contentment, Empty

  Jess Walter (2012). “Beautiful Ruins: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

  Richard Bach

  Fear, Long, Gone

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sleep, Giving, Tonight

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.200, Hachette UK

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• You've eased my boredom for quite a while, haven't you? -Ryuk

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Havens

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• Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

  David Ogilvy

  Hard Work, Men, Disease

  David Ogilvy (1978). “Blood, Brains and Beer”

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• While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom.

  Derek Landy

  Rotten, May, Reason

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• Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

  Rebecca Stead

  People, Mind, Happens

  Rebecca Stead (2012). “Liar & Spy”, p.44, Wendy Lamb Books

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• In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

  Stephen King

  Years, Said

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.19, Titan Books

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• But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.

  MacDonald Harris

  Pain, Loneliness, Blow

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• None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.

  Gaston Leroux

  Sadness, Joy, Sorrow

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.24, e-artnow

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• For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which everything is known would be static and dull, as boring as the heaven of some weak-minded theologians. A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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

  Peter Kreeft

  Spiritual, Anorexia, Junk

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• It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

  Robley Wilson

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Robley Wilson (1978). “Living alone: fictions”, Fiction Intl

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• Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

  Robert McKee

  Suffering, Desire, Conflict

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• ...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

  Alberto Moravia

  Flower, Loss, Dust

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Boredom”, p.5, New York Review of Books

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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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