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

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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. – Thomas Szasz

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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom ones self to be bored. – Lady Bloomfield

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I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. – Jules Renard

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