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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. (Kevorkian Jack)
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. (Kevorkian Jack)
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. (Kevorkian Jack)
His shortcoming is his long staying. (Kevorkian Jack)
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. (Kevorkian Jack)
The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life. (Kevorkian Jack)
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance. (Kevorkian Jack)
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain. (Kevorkian Jack)
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Kevorkian Jack)
Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom. (Kevorkian Jack)
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. (Kevorkian Jack)
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. (Kevorkian Jack)
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. (Kevorkian Jack)
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. (Kevorkian Jack)
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. (Kevorkian Jack)
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. (Kevorkian Jack)
Boredom: the desire for desires. (Kevorkian Jack)
A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway. (Kevorkian Jack)
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. (Kevorkian Jack)
All kinds are good except the kind that bores you. (Kevorkian Jack)
It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture. (Kevorkian Jack)
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