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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Often attributed to Dorothy Parker

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Often attributed to Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), though never firmly located in her writing; it first surfaces in mid-20th-century quote columns. Whoever coined it built a perfect little machine: the first sentence solves a problem, the second proudly refuses to solve the one it creates. Curiosity, it admits, is incurable — and that is the compliment.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Can sıkıntısının çaresi meraktır. Merakın ise çaresi yoktur.
Genellikle Dorothy Parker'a atfedilir

Dorothy Parker'a (1893–1967) sıkça atfedilir; ancak yazılarında kesin olarak bulunamamıştır — ilk kez 20. yüzyıl ortasının alıntı köşelerinde görülür. Kim kurduysa kusursuz küçük bir makine kurmuş: İlk cümle bir sorunu çözer, ikincisi yarattığı sorunu çözmeyi gururla reddeder. Merak, diye itiraf eder, çaresizdir — iltifat da zaten budur.

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