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"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."
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"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."
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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."
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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."
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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."
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"Boredom is rage spread thin."
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"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."
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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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"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."
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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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"My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did."
Success
"Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa."
Man
"There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite."
Friendship
"Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity."
Work
"I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear."
Fear
"Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question."
Authority
"These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off."
Time
"However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience."
Experience
"I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old."
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"As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work."
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