Andy Warhol
Artist, Filmmaker
"You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you."
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Bores You
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Oscar Wilde
Writer
"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings."
Johnny Carson
Television Host
"I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now.""
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"Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored."
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"History is the same thing over and over again."
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"The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands."
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"Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges."
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"To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do."
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"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced."
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"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"I don't want to do the same thing over and over again."
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"I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own."
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"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."
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"I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored."
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"Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both."
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"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."
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"Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you."
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"I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating."
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