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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

—Dorothy Parker

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

—Chuck Palahniuk

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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

—Bert Leston Taylor

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A finished person is a boring person.

—Anna Quindlen

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Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

—Ambrose Bierce

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

—Groucho Marx

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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

—Groucho Marx

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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

—George Herbert

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

—G. K. Chesterton

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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

—Frank Zappa

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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

—Ezra Pound

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

—Ernest Hemingway

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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

—Edith Sitwell

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Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

—Dorothy Parker

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