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Johnny: What's the matter, you fed up?
Linda: To the neck.
Johnny: Even with this million-dollar museum? All those marble pillars down there?
Linda: Case, compared to the life I lead the last man in a chain gang thoroughly enjoys himself!
Johnny: What you need's some time off from what you've been doing day in, day out.
Linda: You mean from what I've not been doing days in — please — years out.

"You want to know why we did it? We were bored!"
Warren "Fox" Lawford from Batman: The Animated Series, "The Terrible Trio".

"I lived all my years in that ancient rumor-shadowed manor, fattened by decadence and luxury. And yet, I began to tire of conventional extravagance."
- The Ancestor's intro narration, Darkest Dungeon

"Do you know what someone who doesn’t have any money has in common with someone with too much money to know what to do with? Living is no fun for either of them. If you have too much money, then it doesn’t matter what you buy or eat or drink or whatever. Everything, well, it all gets boring."
- The Host revealing how he came up with the titular deadly games, Squid Game

"I've noticed one thing about a certain type of rich person: When they don't have problems of their own, they have to create problems just to make their lives interesting. I can guarantee you J. K. Rowling had zero opinions about trans people when she was on welfare."


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