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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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"He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step."
"He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her."
"I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs."
"Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it."
"I'll follow you to the next life if I have to," he whispered harshly in her ear. "You'll never be free of me. I'll chase you through heaven and hell and beyond." He continued to whisper without stopping while his hands gripped her body close to his. "You stay with me, Holly," he muttered savagely. "Don't do this to me. You stay, damn you."
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"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."
"In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell."
"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements."
"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."
"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."
"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
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