"Boredom is rage spread thin."

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"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."

Dustin Hoffman, American Actor

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"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again."

Jerome Lawrence, American Playwright

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"One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom."

Muriel Spark, English Novelist

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"Sooner barbarity than boredom."

Theophile Gautier, French Poet

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"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom."

Quentin Crisp, English Writer

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"The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat."

Tom Kite, American Athlete

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"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"Without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. When he was very close, he saw' her gaping mouth: she was yawning lengthily, insatiably: the great open hole was rocking gently atop die mechanically dancing body. Jean-Marc thought: she's dancing and she's bored.He reached the seawall: down below, on the beach, he saw men with their heads thrown back releasing kites into the air. They were doing it with passion, and Jean-Marc recalled his old theory: there are three kinds of boredom: passive boredom: the girl dancing and yawning; active boredom: kite-lovers; and rebellious boredom: young people burning cars and smashing shop windows."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Boredom, Desire, Routine, Alienation

"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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