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“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt” - 1961

“My definition of living is to have excitement always; that’s the difference between living and existing.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story” - 2012

“The most exciting thing is not-doing-it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.” Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness” - 1930

“To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes” - 1912

“It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.” Anthony Trollope, “Phineas Redux” - 1874

“In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my mind about whether a business proposal excites me within about thirty seconds of looking at it.” Richard Branson, “Losing My Virginity” - 1998

“Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets anyway.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.” Warren Buffett, “The Essays of Warren Buffett” - 1997

“the idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“The fourth member of the party, however, was too excited to be genuinely happy.” James Joyce, “Dubliners” - 1914

“What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

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