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“[Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a writer of the most insightful psychological novels who, at times, appeared bored by people; a mi...”
“Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. "You dont hold on to power by being everyones friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. Were too powerful, and too bore...”
“The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!”
“Boredom doesn't exist where creativity lives.”
“Boredom is a positive attitude's enemy.”
“Boredom is the Devil's delight.”
“You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person).”
“Lorraine once told me, smile big when youre sad. Smile big when youre happy. Smile big when youre bored. Because regardless how you feel, your face could use a stretch.”
“He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she had stimulated him; something in her personality invariably affected him. Now that he was f...”
“There is a lot to do in life than to get bored with.”
“A guilty conscience pushed me to try harderwhich I did for what seemed like a tremendous amount of wasted time, staring bug-eyed at uncooperative pencils. What was missing? The answer seemed obviou...”
“How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That we here in the world of sensible folk know how to wait without twisted-up bellies and tapping fee...”
“A writer's partner should be a good reader...otherwise she/he will get bored what's happening around.”
“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.”
“Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night!”
“Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!”
“Summer had a way of being full of fun and things to do and plenty of times of doing nothing and feeling bored.”
“Sometimes chaos is the very thing that deliberately shakes up our neatly ordered worlds in order to get us out of the neatly ordered ruts that have kept us stuck.”
“That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever happened.”
“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
