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John Mortimer

"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."

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"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."

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

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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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"In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?"

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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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"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."

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"Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom."

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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."

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"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"

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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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"Boredom " the psychological state that we experience whenever we are uninterested in what we are currently doing " is one of the defining traits of humanity. Time is the psychological nemesis of humankind. Tedium, a fundamental angst of humankind, arises from human beings' ability to perceive time and our attempts to derive meaning from our personal existence."

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