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• I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

  Helen Keller

  Stupid, Mean, People

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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• Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, People

  "What It Is". Stand-up by Dylan Moran, www.youtube.com. May 15, 2009.

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• Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being "cool." Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when you're cool. Hobbes: Look, I brought a sombrero! Now we can both be "cool." Calvin: A sombrero?! Are you crazy?! Cool people don't wear sombreros! Hobbes: What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

  Bill Watterson

  Fun, Crazy, Bored

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• You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

  Andy Warhol

  Boredom, Needs, Thrill

  "Andy Warhol's party book".

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• Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Doors, Twenties

  "The Golden Notebook". Book by Doris Lessing (1962), Introduction, 1971 edition.

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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, People, Bored

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• I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Hate, Agony

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1093, Delphi Classics

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• If only Simon were here. He could probably bore you to sleep.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sleep, Bores, Ifs

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, you’re going to die all right. All of you. And for what you’ve done to my brother you will suffer unimaginably! (Kessar) Yada, yada, yada. Am I the only one who gets sick of the bad-guy monologue? ‘Ooo, I’m the big evil. I’m going to kill you all. Just wait while I bore you to tears with my egomaniacal bullshit. I’m just a demon windbag who likes to hear himself speak and I’m trying to intimidate you.' (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brother, Evil, Sick

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• Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Book, Fire, Race

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.250, Random House

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• I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Moving, Thinking

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• There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, Doors

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible!

  Anne Frank

  Revenge, Men, Doors

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.49, GENERAL PRESS

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• Oh dear," said Jace..."I hope that wasn't anything important." "It was a sleeping potion," she said angrily, toeing the vial with the tip of a sneaker. "And now it's gone." "If only Simon were here. He could bore you to sleep.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sleep, Sneakers, Important

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Motivation, Mean

  "Author Talk". Interview, www.teenreads.com. September 2006.

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• I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

  Louise Brooks

  Knives, People, Ifs

  "Lulu in Hollywood". Book by Louise Brooks, 1982.

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• Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.

  Ilka Chase

  Mother, Baby, Russia

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• Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.

  Will Arnett

  Thinking, People, Firsts

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• If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.

  Francois Fenelon

  Ease, Amusement, Christianity

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• Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.

  Marvin Gaye

  Family, Mother, Father

  Song: God Is Love, Album: What's Going On, 1971

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• If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Writing, Ems, Ifs

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, Harper Collins

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• When a thing bores you, do not do it.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Boredom, Bores

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• A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

  O. Henry

  Mosquitoes, Stories, Bills

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.346, Penguin

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• If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heaven, Worship, Ready

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• Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.

  Gary Reilly

  Years, Long, Ratios

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