"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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"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."

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"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."

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

Arthur Helps, British Historian

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"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."

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