I will do anything to avoid boredom. It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

Anne Carson, “Introduction” (from Short Talks).

(I suspect that all of the major decisions in my life have been motivated by just this drive to avoid boredom.)

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