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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. – Norman Mailer

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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. – Norman Mailer

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Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. – Norman Mailer

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Bore — a person who talks when you wish him to listen. – Ambrose Bierce

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Whats wrong with being a boring kind of guy? – George Bush

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People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. – Jeremy Collier

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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. – C.C. Colton

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The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. – Victor Hugo

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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. – Jonathan Swift

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My dad was an editor and a writer, and thats actually what I aspired to be. – Anne M. Mulcahy

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