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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."
"If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!"
"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."
"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"
"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
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"I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward."
"The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech."
"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print."
"All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting."
"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
"The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed."
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