"...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor."

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Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

Jung Chang

#Boredom Quotes #Labor Quotes

“Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?”
“By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.”
“Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.”
“I never really did a western western.”
“Right now I feel that I've got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.”
“Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.”

Source : Shakuntala Devi (1977). “The world of homosexuals”, Lawrence Verry Incorporated
“I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.”
“At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.”

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