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Boredom Quote by Paul Theroux

“It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.” quote by Paul Theroux — Download Open image

“It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.”

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Life is what you make it¦If one refuses to use ones imagination..it will be boring.

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“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.”

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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

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The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

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