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• Demasiados servicios religiosos empiezan a las once en punto y terminan a las doce.

  Vance Havner

  Church Service, Twelve, Dull

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• ¿Y si elegimos no hacer las cosas que se supone que debemos hacer? La principal ganancia es la sensación de un acto auténtico, y una vida auténtica. Puede que sea corta, pero es auténtica, y eso es mucho mejor que esas vidas cortas llenas de aburrimiento. La principal pérdida es la seguridad. Otra es el respeto de la comunidad. Pero ganas el respeto de otra comunidad, la que merece la pena que te respete.

  Joseph Campbell

  Vida, Respeto, Pérdida

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• Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

  Edgar Degas

  Overcoming, Contemplating

  Edgar Degas' notebook entry (1858), as quoted in "The Notebooks of Edgar Degas" edited by Theodore Reff, 1976.

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• Me interesa mucho la sublimación. Me encanta la forma en que Francis Bacon hablaba de la sonrisa sin el gato, la sensación sin el aburrimiento de su transmisión... Siempre he querido ser capaz de transmitir imágenes figurativas en una especie de taquigrafía, transmitirlas de la forma más directa posible. Quiero que haya una presencia humana sin tener que representarla en su totalidad.

  Cecily Brown

  Cat, Want, Able

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• La levedad es el lubricante de las crisis. Recurrimos a chistes, bromas y bromas pesadas para aliviar la tensión, el estrés y el aburrimiento.

  Wally Schirra

  Stress, Levity, Resorts

  Ed Buckbee, Wally Schirra (2005). “The Real Space Cowboys”, Collectors Guide Pub

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• Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.

  Jessica Zafra

  Healthy, Soul, Body

  Jessica Zafra (1998). “Twisted”, Anvil Books

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• A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.

  Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

  War, Frustration, Men

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• Writing is a deeply immersive experience.  When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice.  I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.

  Monica Ali

  Writing, Escaping, House

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• Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

  Anna Quindlen

  Summer, Distance, Lying

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.25, Random House

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• ... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.

  Freya Stark

  Eye, Impact, Blue

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• I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.

  Geoff Dyer

  Thinking, Opinion, No Excuses

  "Geoff Dyer, Journey Man". Interview with Lucas Bscher, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 28, 2012.

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• Life is first boredom, then fear.
  Whether or not we use it, it goes,
  And leaves what something hidden from us chose,
  And age, and then the only end of age.

  Philip Larkin

  Fear, Age, Use

  'Dockery & Son' (1964)

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• Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination.

  Tim Tharp

  People, Imagination, Boring

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

  Vikram Seth

  Writing, Stronger, Inclination

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• When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

  Gish Jen

  Thinking, Would Be, Should

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• The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Thinking, Lazy

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• Con los hombres profundos, como con los pozos profundos, todo lo que cae en ellos tarda mucho tiempo en tocar fondo. Los espectadores, que casi nunca esperan lo suficiente, suponen fácilmente que esos hombres son insensibles e insensibles... o incluso aburridos.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Men, Long

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• El aburrimiento y el miedo nos mantienen trabajando y obedeciendo las leyes.

  Mason Cooley

  Miedo, Trabajo, Derecho

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• The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

  Mason Cooley

  Life, Resentment, Pleasure

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• Yawns are hard to refute.

  Mason Cooley

  Duro

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• El aburrimiento sexual está desbancando a la desviación sexual como problema.

  Mason Cooley

  Deviance, Problem

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• Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Jobs, Beer, Men

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag,
  of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag.
  Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan
  useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.

  Anne Sexton

  Dog, Mind, Contentment

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

  Albert Camus

  War, Slavery, Reason

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• What people will do to get away from boredom!

  Mijaíl Baryshnikov

  People, Get Away

  "Mikhail Baryshnikov Shared His Walls". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2012.

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