"I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!"

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Source : "Fictional character: Marguerite Gautier". "Camille", 1936.

Greta Garbo

#Boredom Quotes #Bored Quotes

“Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.”

Source : Gina Barreca (2016). “"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times”, p.41, St. Martin's Press
“I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.”
“Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.”
“Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.”
“People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.”
“When the deeds that you do don't add up to zero.”
“Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to see the bearing of scattered facts.”
“Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There's a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really:selfishness. But there's also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.”

Source : George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.52, A&C Black

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