"He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash."

Boredom, Youth, Behavior, Social

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"He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash."

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

Anatole France, French Novelist

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

William Weld, American Politician

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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet

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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."

Dustin Hoffman, American Actor

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"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."

Wendell Phillips, American Activist

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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."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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

John Mortimer, English Novelist

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"Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind."

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"Sooner barbarity than boredom."

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"They march into the future to the rhythm of the past."

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"Once you're on the pleasure express, it's hard to get off and switch to another, slower service."

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"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."

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"Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation."

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