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"Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind."
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"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."
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"In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?"
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"Tedium and boredom are related, but not identical. Tedium comes from a person lacking an ideology to live by; the dulling fear fomented in the soul after confronting the paucity of life."
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"He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash."
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"Even boredom has its crises."
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"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."
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"If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!"
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"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever."
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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."
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"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
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"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
Marriage

"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away."
Death

"One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more."
People

"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
People

"I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode."
Life

"I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance."
Hair

"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."
Popular

"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
Hair

"To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty."
People
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