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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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Theres a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. – Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer
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The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. – Norman Mailer

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

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The best cure for boredom is hard work. – Proverb

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

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Boredom: the desire for desires. – Leo Tolstoy

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