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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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"Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal."

"The fans are always more radical than that which they are fans."

"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."

"He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her."

"All the fires of hell could burn for a thousand years and it wouldn't equal what I feel for you in one minute of the day. I love you so much there is no pleasure in it. Nothing but torment. Because if I could dilute what I feel for you to the millionth part, it would still be enough to kill you. And even if it drives me mad, I would rather see you live in the arms of that cold, soulless bastard than die in mine," Merripen said to Win."

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

"Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it."
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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."

"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."

"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."

"I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for."

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."

"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."

"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."

"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses."
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