WIST Quotations

Bailey, Dale -- Story (1997-02), “Quinn’s Way,” Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 92, No. 2, Issue 548

Dave — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:43:00 +0000

He was filled with terrible knowing: This day had been exactly as empty as the last and tomorrow would be the same. This is what it is to be old, Henry thought.

Dale Bailey (b. 1968) American author
Story (1997-02), “Quinn’s Way,” Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 92, No. 2, Issue 548
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Shakespeare, William -- Richard II, Act 5, sc. 5, l. 50 (5.5.50) (1595)

Dave — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:41:41 +0000

RICHARD: I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 5, sc. 5, l. 50 (5.5.50) (1595)
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In his prison cell.

Russell, Bertrand -- Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 4 “Boredom and Excitement” (1930)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

A certain power of enduring boredom is therefore essential to a happy life, and is one of the things that ought to be taught to the young. […] A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow processes of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers, as though they were cut flowers in a vase.

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 4 “Boredom and Excitement” (1930)
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