#bored

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. ↗

— John Berger

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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bored #death #die #i #my own

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#fiction #i #learned #me #parts

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ↗

— Anatole France

#despair #humanity #lies #perish #without

We can be bought, but we can't be bored. ↗

— Lynn Fontanne

#bought

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#american #american audience #audience #boredom #cliche

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. ↗

— James Galway

#boredom #breeds #familiar #routine #running

I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going. ↗

— Brad Garrett

#better #bored #easily #far #going

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

#back #because #bored #boredom #broadway

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

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