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Theophile Gautier

"Sooner barbarity than boredom."

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"Sooner barbarity than boredom."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!"

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"It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."

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"I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"Boredom " the psychological state that we experience whenever we are uninterested in what we are currently doing " is one of the defining traits of humanity. Time is the psychological nemesis of humankind. Tedium, a fundamental angst of humankind, arises from human beings' ability to perceive time and our attempts to derive meaning from our personal existence."

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