"Sooner barbarity than boredom."

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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."

Jerome Lawrence, American Playwright

Boredom, Competition, Play, Theater

"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Boredom, Freedom, Liberty, Pleasure

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

Anatole France, French Novelist

Boredom, Despair, Humanity, Lies

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

Wendell Phillips, American Activist

Boredom, Criticism

"Boredom is rage spread thin."

Paul Tillich, German Theologian

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

William Weld, American Politician

Boredom, Press

"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."

Mary Renault, English Novelist

Boredom, Defeat

"Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Boredom,

"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."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Boredom, Idleness, Time, Life, Reflection

"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me."

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author

Boredom, Mediocrity

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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."

"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."

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

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

"Boredom is rage spread thin."

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

"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."

"Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic."

"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."

"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me."

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