"...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor."
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"I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity."
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"Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom."
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"Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life."
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"Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian."
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