--- title: "2 Mary Mann Quotes" description: "Mary Mann has 2 quotes on SMS4Smile. Browse their most insightful sayings." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/075/mary-mann-104691_boredom_tolstoy-described-boredom-as-a-desire-fo_1116304.jpg" --- # Mary Mann **2** quotes in **7** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet ## Quotes by Mary Mann > [“Tolstoy described boredom as “a desire for desires,” while the working-class Chekhov wrote about it primarily as a desire for escape.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-mann/tolstoy-described-boredom-as-a-desire-for-desires-while-the-working/) [Mary Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-mann/) [Boredom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boredom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/075/mary-mann-104691_boredom_tolstoy-described-boredom-as-a-desire-fo_1116304.jpg) > [“Many people have to spend the majority of their lives doing work they don’t care about, for employers who may or may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-mann/many-people-have-to-spend-the-majority-of-their-lives-doing-work-they/) [Mary Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-mann/) [Boredom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boredom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/mary-mann-104691_boredom_many-people-have-to-spend-the-majority-o_1286402.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-mann/#itemlist", "name": "Mary Mann Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Tolstoy described boredom as “a desire for desires,” while the working-class Chekhov wrote about it primarily as a desire for escape.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mary Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-mann/tolstoy-described-boredom-as-a-desire-for-desires-while-the-working/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/075/mary-mann-104691_boredom_tolstoy-described-boredom-as-a-desire-fo_1116304.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/075/mary-mann-104691_boredom_tolstoy-described-boredom-as-a-desire-fo_1116304.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/075/mary-mann-104691_boredom_tolstoy-described-boredom-as-a-desire-fo_1116304.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Tolstoy described boredom as “a desire for desires,” while the working-class Chekhov wrote about it…” — Mary Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Many people have to spend the majority of their lives doing work they don’t care about, for employers who may or may not treat them fairly, and the rest of us live in a world where we know that’s happening—that the smartphone that entertain us are made in sweatshops, the sugar the sweetens our cakes and coffees harvested by underpaid laborers—but don’t know what to do about it. 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