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I am a compulsive and concise shopper. — Zac Posen

Hiding our fears behind compulsive behavior of any kind severely limits our ability to be ourselves. — Sue Patton Thoele

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer. — A. Scott Berg

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine. — Cynthia Voigt

The compulsive talker must go through the herculean transformation of learning to quit or must become a great monologuist. — Norman Mailer

I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby. — Jean Nidetch

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly. — Neil Gaiman

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange. — Tracy Kidder

I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side. — Demi Moore

I think, therefore I am (obsessive and compulsive). — Amy Surprenant

I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius. — Lady Sovereign

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling. — Christina Ricci

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism. — Chelsea Handler

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember. — David Nicholls

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs. — David Beckham

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end. — C.S. Lewis

I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day. — Felicia Day

I'm a compulsive sneaker collector, mostly limited edition. — Jourdan Dunn

When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease. — Elizabeth I

The disinhibition caused by said brain damage, can also spur the infected individual to seek the pleasure of compulsive, casual sexual activity — Chuck Palahniuk

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer. — Astro Teller

Just how and when events in Larry Lee's life and mind had collided to create the compulsive sexual predator he'd become would never be clear. Yet — S.R. Reynolds

Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry. — Geneen Roth

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain. — Richard Ford

Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more. — Eli Pariser

We have it in our head that if we fill our stomachs, we'll fill our hearts. — Kate Wicker

The nice word for you is methodical. Obsessive-compulsive is the meaner phrase, and one you've truly earned. — Claire Kendal

Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution. — Jean Nidetch

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow. — Samuel Wilson

I'm a compulsive everything. — Mike Birbiglia

Never admit you have obsessive-compulsive disorder to someone who doesn't have it because they'll think you're crazy. But — Simon Van Booy

I've been married but I'm not anymore. And I still believe in love. — Nick Saint Clair

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me. — Alan Cumming

I realized I was an anorexic, a bulimic, and a compulsive overeater. — Justine Bateman

If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person ... I'd chainsaw people. — Brendon Urie

I'm, like, a compulsive eater. I'm going to be so fat when I'm older, it's ridiculous. — Robert Pattinson

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it. — Amy Waldman

We're clothing accumulators with anxiety, compulsive shoppers struggling with addiction, or frumpy dressers who suffer from depression. Our — Jennifer Baumgartner

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive. — Liev Schreiber

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now. — Eckhart Tolle

I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him. — Ben Bailey

I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me! — Lydia Davis

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things. — Chace Crawford

A dream long lost in the compulsive effort to fill space, to replicate some family image of self. — William Gibson

I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right. — Bobby Davro

The greatest obstacle to experiencing the reality of your connectedness is identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive. — Eckhart Tolle

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence — Jack Kerouac

Compulsive repetitions are the death of fantasies. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American. — Ben Lerner

I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands. — Kelly Clarkson

Most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking. — David Foster Wallace

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you! — Susan Forward

I'm a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot - it's my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Fuck you . . . you fucking body-dysmorphia porn-addict trust-fund-baby compulsive-masturbation motherfucker. — Warren Ellis

No act of love is ever wasted. — Geneen Roth

Neither my husband nor I am interested in mincing words. If I break something, for example, I have to announce it. I'm a compulsive confessor. — Jennifer Connelly

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me. — Mario Cantone

The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons. — Daphne Du Maurier

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings. — Sylvain Tesson

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart — Edvard Munch

I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking. — Deepika Padukone

I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person. — Marion Ross

Catholicism is an obsessive-compulsive faith. — Ann Patchett

Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth. — Anthony Marais

Imagine Smaug's treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste. — Jim Butcher

Remember what writer Colin Marshall says: Compulsive avoidance of embarrassment is a form of suicide. — Austin Kleon

I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that. — Courtney Thorne-Smith

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it. — Steve Martin

Love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! — Eric Jerome Dickey

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary." — Ken Kesey

Memories are like Teek." said Pixie Pan, "You never can tell." (Teek being a compulsive lying and commitment-shy poltergeist.) — Stacey Lane

Goals are compulsive cahoots, gnawing at our minds everyday, challenging our abilities and pushing us closer to the curve of compliance. — Balroop Singh

Compulsive behavior occurs when the urge to act out is greater than our will to say no. Recovery then, is the process of reversing that equation. — Roger Stark

My compulsive thoughts aren't even thoughts, they're absolute certainties and obeying them isn't a choice. — Paul Rudnick

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it. — Stephen Sondheim

For some, the new addiction reached beyond gambling to compulsive eating, alcohol consumption, and hypersexuality. — David Eagleman

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else. — Alexis Korner