Saul Bellow
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Boredom is also the shriek of unused capacities, the doom of serving no great end or design, or contributing to no master force.
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Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
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Character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.
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Evil is sometimes able to survive identification and go on forever - money, for instance, or war.
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Los Angeles is where all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into southern california.