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I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

—Gian Vincenzo Gravina

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

—James Hillman

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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

—H. L. Mencken

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I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

—Henry Kissinger

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

—Ambrose Bierce

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A finished person is a boring person.

—Anna Quindlen

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

—Dorothy Parker

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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

—George Saunders

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The secret of being boring is to say everything.

—Voltaire

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

—William Shakespeare

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