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• To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Self, Intellectual, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “Outre-mer and Drift-wood”

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• Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Travel, Wall, Real

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• Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.

  Fergie

  Rap, Kids, Gun

  "Fergie admits drugs shame!" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2006.

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• The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Civilization, Dachau, Foolish

  Cormac McCarthy (2011). “The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Why are tall guys always attracted to short women? Not just moderately short women, either... Tiny women. Polly Pockets. The tallest guys always-always-always go for the shortest girls. Always. It's like they're so infatuated with their own height that they want to be with someone who makes them feel even taller. Someone they can tower over. A little doll that will make them feel even bigger and stronger.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, Guy, Stronger

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Giving Up, Writing

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.66, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

  Rachel Kushner

  Destiny, Want, Persons

  Rachel Kushner (2014). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death,
  My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats...
  Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death,
  Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Cousin, Rap, Sleep

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• An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

  George Crabbe

  Men, Infatuation, Foolish

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• When I was 9 or 10, I used to get all the lead roles because I was the tallest person. But my interest in music soon drew me to country music. I was infatuated with the sound, with the storytelling. I could relate to it. I can't really tell you why. With me, it was just instinctual.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Sound, Roles

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• I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in public and are only marginally better in private. I only find you remotely tolerable when you're kissing me.

  Tessa Dare

  Kissing, Men, Majority

  Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.85, Ballantine Books

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• Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Cat, Use, Praying

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.

  Helen Fisher

  Sleep, Ifs

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• Kate realized she had a grave problem. She was infatuated. Or mildly insane. Possibly both.

  Tessa Dare

  Insane, Problem, Graves

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• With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

  Peter Gay

  Years, Generations, Kitsch

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• When you a young kid at that age at that time, and you know that you got talent as far as hip hop, you wanna be on the radio, that's the first thing. So we was more or less infatuated with just havin' a song on the radio, you know? Before our careers even launched it was more or less about lettin' everybody know, 'Staten Island? You got good emcees there.'

  Raekwon

  Song, Kids, Hip Hop

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

  Akiva Goldsman

  Thinking, Television, Elegant

  Source: collider.com

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• Director Park always talked to me about her in a very innocent way, that the story was of her coming of age and her sexual awakening and her going from girl to woman and that she had the same desires and hopes as other young people in terms of being very infatuated, which comes in the form of her uncle, which is very unconventional.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Girl, Uncles, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited.

  Henry Rollins

  Differences, Numbers, People

  "The Column! Are You Collector Scum?" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best" American higher criticism.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Art, Epic

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein, and the Big Bang. I read a lot about black holes. And partly because I'm so lazy I thought you could do all this just by looking at the sky and thinking up universes. It didn't seem like hard work when I was a kid, so I enrolled in this class.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  School, Kids, Hard Work

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Sometimes people come up and they get infatuated with some little brief imagistic poem or something, and they say, "Oh, I really like your Zen poems." And I say, "Which ones are not Zen poems?"

  Sam Hamill

  People, Littles, Sometimes

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude yourself and frighten yourself with Iron Age fairy tales. This is a monumental task. I don't think there is an intellectual struggle more worthy of our efforts.

  Sam Harris

  Struggle, Thinking, Iron

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• Thank God, I'm actually infatuated and in love with what I do, therefore I am what I do. So I never have to forget [any of my ideas] because I never have to remember, I just am. I don't need to write stuff down.

  Lil Wayne

  Writing, Ideas, Thank God

  "Lil Wayne: The Uncut Q&A". Interview with Devin Friedman, www.gq.com. January 13, 2009.

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• My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

  Lily Tomlin

  People, Different, Kind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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