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Duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.
— Colleen McCullough
I have no ideas, only obsessions. Anybody can have ideas. Ideas have never caused anybody's downfall.
— Emil M. Cioran
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
— Scarlett Thomas
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
— Catherine Deneuve
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
— Steve Martin
I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.
— Sybil Adelman
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
— Andres Serrano
Obsessions are the only things that matter.
— Patricia Highsmith
Relationships are like wall paper patterns, you think your moving forward but your always caught in your own obsessions.
— Darcey Steinke
How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.
— D.H. Lawrence
I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.
— Steven Pinker
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
Such was the nature of obsessions: no quarter given for the human cost.
— Alastair Reynolds
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
— Pamela Stephenson
Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.
— Mary Heilmann
Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.
— Martin Scorsese
I love flat shoes, more so than heels. One of my obsessions is men's co-respondent lace-ups.
— Twiggy
To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.
— Charles Simic
The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.
— Marilynne Robinson
He had been ploughing his way through the early volumes, discovering the origins of Lazenby's twin obsessions: sex and eternal life.
— Jonathan Aycliffe
In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
— Andres Serrano
People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.
— Francine Prose
My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
— Victor LaValle
To be a success, follow your obsessions obsessively.
— Debasish Mridha
Obsessions turn people off.
— Grover Norquist
Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.
— Jean Grenier
In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
— Stephen King
I think it's obsessions that a lot of people share, but they don't dare to talk about openly.
— Julie Delpy
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
— Emile M. Cioran
Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you're getting old.
— Jeanette Winterson
If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
— Marguerite Young
I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.
— William Gibson
Every time I thought to, I wrote about you.
— Crystal Woods
Hello, I'm Stan and I'm a textaholic I am powerless over my thumbs
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Obsessions are always dangerous.
— Agatha Christie
It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines.
— Matthew De Abaitua
True love is not in possessions or obsessions; it is in appreciation.
— Debasish Mridha
Why do non autistic people have interests/hobbies. But, autistic people have obsessions?
— Tina J. Richardson
My prep team. My foolish, shallow, affectionate pets, with their obsessions with feathers and parties, nearly break my heart with their good-bye. It's
— Suzanne Collins
Thought changes structure ... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.
— Norman Doidge
There were times, Sham felt, when the captains regretted there being only two types of limb they could lose to their obsessions.
— China Mieville
Obsessions don't subside. They evolve.
— Alex Crimson
I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.
— Alice Sebold
We are living through an age of peculiar obsessions.
— Jeremy Maddux
I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.
— Charles Dickens
Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.
— Anna Journey
No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.
— Jonathan V. Last
I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it's practice for sociopaths.
— Lisa Scottoline
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
I think I have mental problems, I think I have like weird obsessions with things, really annoying.
— Kourtney Kardashian
I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.
— Justin Cronin
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
— Mary Ellen Mark
Obsessions are nine tenths of my flaws.
— Atticus
You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Peeves are like that: my peeves are law, yours are unhealthy obsessions.
— Robert Lane Greene
