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Jerome Lawrence

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

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"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of 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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"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."

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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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