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• If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

  David Mamet

  Bores You, Actors, Scene

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• I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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

  Bores You, Mosquitoes, Stories

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

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• The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Happiness, Independent

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

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• I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

  Mick Jagger

  Thinking, Drug, Boring

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• To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.

  Frederick Buechner

  Journey, Scare, Half

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

  Hugh Laurie

  Stupid, People, Giving

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• THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

  William Blake

  Morning, Night, Garden

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Poison Tree'

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• Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.

  Eliza Leslie

  Giving, Giving In, Invitations

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies”, p.58

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• Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eternity, Wanted

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.63, Faber & Faber

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• Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given you two events in advance, because I don't have much interest in building mystery. 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. There are many things to think of. There is much story.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Thinking, Two

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.243, RH Childrens Books

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• when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.

  Martha Albrand

  Age, Old Age

  Martha Albrand (1950). “Wait for the Dawn”

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• If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Clever, Men, Wings

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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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• ...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

  Philip Pullman

  Expression, Faces, Forget

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Children, Book

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Nine Tailors”, p.464, Open Road Media

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• Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Gratitude, Appreciation

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (48), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.

  Lisa Lutz

  Mother, Father, Real

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• ...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd stare at an animal. She pretended not to notice. To remind them she was a person was too much effort. Objects bore no guilt.

  Janet Fitch

  Animal, Men, Effort

  Janet Fitch (2013). “Paint It Black”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.

  Michelle Paver

  Pain, Heart, Rivers

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• Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

  William Golding

  Our World, Ideas, Three

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• In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Light, Giving, Lovely

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact, once we didn't speak for an entire week because he didn't like the way I loaded his dishwasher...I can't decide if we're exact opposites, or somehow exactly the same except for minor cosmetic differences. I do know that all of his friends hate me and all of my friends hate him. We drive each other crazy in ways that nobody else can even touch. We never bore each other. And we both realize what a rare thing this is.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Hate, Crazy, Fighting

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• My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

  Lisa See

  Wine, Gone Away, Water

  Lisa See (2011). “Peony in Love”, p.190, A&C Black

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• I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

  Bram Stoker

  Fashion, Able, Dresses

  Bram Stoker (2007). “Dracula”, p.86, Book Jungle

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