Quotes About Obsession
A question, doctor, he said. Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese? He smiled coolly. Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?
~ David Foster Wallace
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As, if you will give the permission, does this love you speak of, M. Tine's grand love. It means only the attachment. Tine is attached, fanatically. Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.
~ David Foster Wallace
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It's not like he kept the money. It's not like he needed it. I think he especially liked the idea that the star of the show might have already moved away or recently died and there was no way to know.
~ David Foster Wallace
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The headmaster of a newly constructed high-altitude sports academy (Watt) becomes neurotically obsessed with litigation over the construction's ancillary damage to a V.A. hospital far below, as a way of diverting himself from his wife's (Heath's) poorly hidden affair with the academically renowned mathematical topologist who is acting as the project's architect ('Rection'). CELLULOID (UNRELEASED)
~ David Foster Wallace
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Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.
~ David Foster Wallace
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most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking. That
~ David Foster Wallace
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Perversamente, a menudo es más divertido querer algo que poseerlo
~ David Foster Wallace
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geek, a drunkard driven so low that he would bite off the heads of chickens and snakes just to get the booze he needed.
~ Unknown
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It was over these few worthless papers that she brooded and brooded. She lived in her past life-every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how-these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world. And the business of her life, was-to watch the corpse of Love.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
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When men of a certain sort, ladies, are in love, though they see the hook and the string, and the whole apparatus with which they are to be taken, they gorge the bait nevertheless—they must come to it—they must swallow it—and are presently struck and landed gasping.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
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He loved a shadow I'd created in his mind.
~ Unknown
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Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
~ William Shakespeare
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Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.
~ William Shakespeare
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But jealous souls will not be answered so. They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. It is a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.
~ William Shakespeare
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Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.
~ William Shakespeare
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For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.
~ William Shakespeare
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How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!
~ William Shakespeare
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She loves him with an enraged affection, it is past the infinite of thought.
~ William Shakespeare
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Thou art a votary to fond desire
~ William Shakespeare
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It is the green eyed monster which doth mock.
~ William Shakespeare
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and Anthony, Enthroned i'th'market-place, did sit alone Whistling to th'air, which but for vacancy Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in Nature.
~ William Shakespeare
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certain writing instrument—became the objects of my demented possessiveness. Each momentary misplacement filled me with a frenzied dismay, each item being the tactile reminder of a world soon to be obliterated. November wore on, bleak, raw and chill. One Sunday
~ William Styron
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I wanted to know her the way a bee wants to know a great bright flower.
~ Unknown
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