"to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored."
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"I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots"
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"Never bored, so I'll never get old"
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"Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar."
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"We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others."
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"We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored."
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"We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring."
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"Extreme boredom provides its own antidote."
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"Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers."
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"As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored" "I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft."
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"Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!"
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"Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me."
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"Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still."
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"Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government."
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"I like to try new things because I get bored so easily."
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"My daughter will say she's hungry, and I'm like, 'Buddy, you're just bored. Do you understand? And you're already starting a pattern of satisfying an internal disconnect with an external stimulation, and that's a dead-end road, sweetie. Courtney Love lives on that road; you don't want to live on that road."
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"I get very bored at practice because I have run curl-flat a million times, or slant-drag. There are so many parts of the game that have become so routine that you can let it bore you, and that's not good."
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"Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall."
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"I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the current. . ." It may not be the recipe for a life of contentment, but that imperfectability is what makes writing such an engaging endeavor, something you can do for the rest of your life and not get bored."
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"I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career."
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