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• The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

  T. S. Eliot

  Home, Doors, Want

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.195, Faber & Faber

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• No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.

  Billy Graham

  Love, Jesus, Men

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.

  Lucille Ball

  Children, Husband, Home

  "Love, Lucy" by Lucille Ball, (p. 113), 1996.

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• in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

  Delia Ephron

  Boring, Grew Up, Murderer

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog: (Etc.)”, p.55, Penguin

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• People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.

  Jeaniene Frost

  People, Sometimes, Intrigue

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• Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

  Robert Southey

  Prosperity, Fortune, Endure

  Robert Southey, Thomas More (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes”, p.212

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• Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more
  Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart;
  Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

  George Herbert

  Sports, Heart, Gambling

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.102

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• My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.

  Margot Asquith

  People, Looks, Kind

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

  Markus Zusak

  Wheels, Mystery, Interest

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.180, Random House

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• If I should die, think only this of me:
  That there's some corner of a foreign field
  That is forever England. There shall be
  In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
  A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
  Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
  A body of England's, breathing English air,
  Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

  Rupert Brooke

  Flower, Book, Home

  'The Soldier' (1914)

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• I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences." "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.

  Heinrich Böll

  Atheist, Laughing, Catholic

  Heinrich Böll (1965). “The clown”, Avon Books

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• A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Next, Wells, Knows

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• I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.

  Franz Kafka

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings".

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• Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Grief, Men, Tiny

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.51, Hachette UK

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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, Bores You

  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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• She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion.

  Kevin Hearne

  Suspects, Fangirl, Resemblance

  Kevin Hearne (2012). “Trapped: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Five”, p.42, Del Rey

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• You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?

  Laini Taylor

  Children, Rain, Land

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• Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.

  Ellen Goodman

  Educational, After Hours, Television

  Ellen Goodman (1981). “Close to home”, Fawcett

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• Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little city of Vincennes on the Wabash, the decaying remnant of an old and curiously gnarled cherry tree, known as the Roussillion tree, le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillion, as the French inhabitants called it, which as long as it lived bore fruit remarkable for richness of flavor and peculiar dark ruby depth of color.

  Maurice Thompson

  Beautiful, Book, Dark

  Maurice Thompson (2008). “Alice of Old Vincennes (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

  Anna Magnani

  Moon, Hands, Jewels

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• Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

  Shirley Hazzard

  Commitment, Numbers, Forgiving

  Shirley Hazzard (2004). “The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel”, p.114, Macmillan

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• The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pests, Baths, Intercourse

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.175, City Lights Books

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• Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

  Rita Dove

  Writing, Trying, Reader

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• I don't really like actors. Actors are like terrible comedians with no punch lines. It's all about them. They talk about themselves all the time. They bore the sh - t out of you.

  Joe Rogan

  Comedian, Actors, Lines

  "12/12: Joe Rogan at Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix". Interview with Randy Cordova, www.azcentral.com. December 9, 2014.

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• ... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Thinking, Looks

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