“Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.” — Gertrude Stein, Wars I Have Seen
Tag: boredom
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“Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?” — C. D. Payne, Youth in Revolt
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“More secrets are improperly disclosed from boredom than from any other motive.” — Robert Aickman, Painted Devils
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“Yet he was bored. His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.” — Christopher Isherwood, The Memorial
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“We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Populist Manifesto
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“Nothing is boring except to people who aren’t really paying attention.” — Michael Chabon, Summerland
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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“It is fatal to know too much at the outset: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot.” — Paul Theroux, Sunrise with Seamonsters
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“Did anyone ever have a boring dream?” — Ralph Hodgson, “Flying Scrolls,” The Skylark: and Other Poems
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“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.” — Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin
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