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"Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer."
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"Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too."
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"The fans are always more radical than that which they are fans."
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"I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession."
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"Then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul."
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"I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs."
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"I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh."
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"The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time."
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"Loneliness doesn't come from missing someone it comes from being disconnected with yourself."
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"I hate skin, I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever."
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"Do you have to take note of every little thing I do? I mean every tiny, little thing, Dragos?'Yes, ' he said simply. 'When I look at you, even when things are going to hell, somehow everything is all right."
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"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube."
Creativity
"Alimony is the curse of the writing class."
Finance
"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be."
Sex
"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
Art
"Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment."
Sentimentality
"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind."
People
"The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you."
Man
"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."
Fact
"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."
Influence
"Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts."
Cultural
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