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• ...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases. Until her discovery of Something Fresh on the top shelf of Ruth's bookshelf one bored summer morning, Frankie's leisure reading had consister primarily of paperback mysteries she found on the spinning racks at the public library down the block from her house, and the short stories of Dorothy Parker. Wodehouse's jubilant wordplay bore itself into her synapses like a worm into a fresh ear of corn.

  E. Lockhart

  Summer, Morning, Block

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.72, Hot Key Books

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• That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?

  Frederick Buechner

  Giving, Done, Bears

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• To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me; For our days are ending and our years failing. I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing. Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling, Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling, In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sweet, Lonely, Fall

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Sea”

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• Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

  Mason Cooley

  Bullying, Boredom, Please

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• the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

  Ethel Smyth

  Majority, Reader, Critical

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said: Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Blessed, White

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.946, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

  Joanne Greenberg

  Lying, Garden, Perfection

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.108, Macmillan

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• Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the English language as Amy knew it. "Rock star in a hurry!" Nellie replied, one foot on the boat's gunwale.

  Peter Lerangis

  Stars, Cutting, Rocks

  Peter Lerangis (2011). “The 39 Clues #7: The Viper's Nest”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Children, Flower, Butterfly

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• I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Flower, Garden

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me.

  Robert Denning

  Cooking, Decorating

  "Denning's Pot-au-Feu – A decorator indulges his passion for cuisine bourgeoise", by Suzanne Hart, House & Garden, March 1992.

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• My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

  Kurt Cobain

  Father, Blood, Want

  "Kurt Cobain: Lost Interview". Guitar World Interview, kuriakon00.tripod.com. July 22, 1993.

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• The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

  James Mangold

  Character, Years, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a creature who bores, easily. I could never do one job, for the rest of my life.

  Robert Kazinsky

  Jobs, Creatures

  Source: collider.com

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• I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Bores You, Thieves, Way

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• For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps Death his court... and with a little pin bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Wall, Farewell

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 155

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• When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thinking, Lions, Lasts

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3418, e-artnow

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• People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees

  Kishore Kumar

  Talking, People, Tree

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• One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

  Ben Okri

  Father, Adversity, Tranquil

  "Ben Okri: My family values" by Juliet Rix, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2010.

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• After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Light, Example

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.53, VM eBooks

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• It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.

  Richard J. Foster

  People, Interesting, Hazards

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Liars, People, Fake

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• They're [children] less forgiving. You have to be very conscious of the fact that they're not going to just accept things; they're going to question. They're going to move around if you bore them. They'll actually leave. So you really have to be on your toes.

  Linda Woolverton

  Children, Moving, Forgiving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is all very incidental when you examine the kind of person he may be. He may be a big bore, and then there is a person who hasn't done a thing in the world and he is a fascinating person.

  Emilio Pucci

  Country, Car, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.

  Emilio Pucci

  Running, Bores You, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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