Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.Cecil Beaton
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