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"What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place."
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"The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting."
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"When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom."
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"I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities."
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"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
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"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."
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"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."
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"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"
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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."
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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."
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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."
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"Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfAated but life-enhancing thoughts."
Travel
"Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it."
Curiosity
"It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships."
Ambition
"In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well."
Work
"Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate."
Commitment
"Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom."
Life
"Being political doesn't only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election, to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers."
Politics
"It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things."
Life
"The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent."
Politics
"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
Ambition
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