"What greater happiness is there than the privilege……" — Curtis Sittenfeld
"What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?"
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70 Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld has 70 quotes on this site.
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I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors…
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People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I…
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I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a…
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It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an…
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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I…
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If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real…
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I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go…
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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
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I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
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High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything…
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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds…
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I'm so trying to give up meat.
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More Bored Quotes
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one of 1,195 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
— Richard Bach
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
— Walter Benjamin
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
— Renata Adler
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I…
— Theodore Bikel
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I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not…
— Christina Aguilera
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I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
— Danny Boyle
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I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do.…
— Tom Brady
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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