"a generation that cannot endure boredom will be……" — Bertrand Russell

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• In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
• I have a fear of being boring. — Christian Bale
• No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. — Robert Adams
• Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. — Walter Benjamin
• Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that… — Renata Adler
• Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. — Ambrose Bierce
• For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life… — Joseph Brodsky
• I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. — Lenny Bruce
• The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. — Jean de la Bruyere
• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so… — Warren Buffett
• In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. — William S. Burroughs

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