
"Llega un momento en la vida en que, haga uno lo que haga, solamente aburre. Queda entonces una manera de recuperar el prestigio: morir."
Source: Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.
Source: The Complete Short Stories
"Llega un momento en la vida en que, haga uno lo que haga, solamente aburre. Queda entonces una manera de recuperar el prestigio: morir."
Source: Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.
Source: Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson), p. 81
“I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.”
Statement at age 80 in The New York Times (3 April 1970)
Referring to her teenage diary, in an interview in Movie magazine (July 1983)
“Never do anything that bores you.”
Succeeding in Science: Some Rules of Thumb (1993)
Context: Never do anything that bores you. My experience in science is that someone is always telling to do something that leaves you flat. Bad idea. I'm not good enough to do something I dislike. In fact, I find it hard enough to do something that I like. … Constantly exposing your ideas to informed criticism is very important, and I would venture to say that one reason both of our chief competitors failed to reach the Double Helix before us was that each was effectively very isolated.
"I Get a Kick Out of You"
Anything Goes (1934)
“Doing anything when you're bored is veryboring. Anyway, isof being bored. Theof being bored isand”
Source: This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
last words (15 February 1988), recalled by sister Joan Feynman, in Christopher Sykes, editor, No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (1994), p. 254