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"You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical."
"I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored."
"He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish."
"The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored."
"There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought"
"I box a lot, I spin and I surf. I try to mix it up. I obviously have to be in shape 24 hours and the gym can be super monotonous, so I just get outside and try to make it fun so my body doesn't get bored."
"Kids need somewhere to go, so they're not bored on the street."
"After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover."
"Somehow I found him. Somehow I found Al's sarcastic thoughts, bitter and old. Tired, angry, bored. Alone."
"... he preferred being stimulated to being bored."
"Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content."
"Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot."
"If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done."
"My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did."
"I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself."
"I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever."
"King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath."
"Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored."
