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

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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."

Dustin Hoffman, American Actor

Boredom, Rebirth

"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

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

Anatole France, French Novelist

Boredom, Despair, Humanity, Lies

"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom."

Quentin Crisp, English Writer

Boredom, Effect, Facts, Freedom

"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Boredom, Presidency, Problems

"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."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Boredom, Desire, Routine, Alienation

"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Boredom, Business, People, Interest, Preference

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

Peter Straub, American Writer

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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."

Viggo Mortensen, American Actor

Boredom,

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

John Mortimer, English Novelist

Boredom, Validity, Writing

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"One's ignorance is one's chief asset."

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"It can never be satisfied, the mind, never."

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"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."

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"Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress."

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"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."

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"The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire."

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"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."

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"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"

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"Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility."

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