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• In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Innovation, Age, Obsolescence

  "Innovation is obsolete". Evergreen review, Volume 15, Issues 86-94, Grove Press, (p. 64), 1971.

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• I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw.

  Nick Love

  Outlaw

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• Obsession is such a naughty word - it's a very intense word. I'm obsessed with music, always have been. I can't lie. And I'm obviously obsessed with my child, my child's life and the little things that he does.

  Kate Hudson

  Children, Lying, Naughty

  "Fool's Gold - Kate Hudson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

  Eric Schlosser

  Mask

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• With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

  Steve Martin

  Three, Delicacy, Categories

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• She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and find nothing there. With detached curiosity she observed the rebirth of her weaknesses, her obsessions. This time she would let them decide, since she hadn't been able to do anything anyway. Against certain parts of yourself you remain powerless, she said to herself, as she regressed pleasurably to the time when she was a girl.

  Paolo Giordano

  Girl, Effort, Curiosity

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• People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

  Francine Prose

  People, Lenses

  Francine Prose (2012). “Goldengrove”, p.126, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

  Markus Zusak

  Self, Should, Humans

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.301, RH Childrens Books

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• People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

  Diane Setterfield

  Integrity, People, Healthy

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Thinking, Forever, Gone

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.219, A&C Black

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• Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

  Walter Moers

  Order, Reverse, Arranging

  Walter Moers (2008). “The City of Dreaming Books”, p.358, The Overlook Press

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• I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so very briefly, was of far vaster and deeper import than it truly was. Of all the weapons we chose to turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.

  Steven Erikson

  Memories, Love You, Past

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• All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Research, Form

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.299, Canongate Books

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• Your desintation is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the insecurities others activates so easily and the torments they create in you. WHen you resist your [life] experiences, you resist the guidance they offer. Anger, resentment jealousy and fear each show you in their own way what you need to change inside yourself in order to reach your destination. Are you listening?

  Gary Zukav

  Life, Creativity, Order

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• This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Ruins, Dignity, Ifs

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.219, A&C Black

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• But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the intersection of past and present. The memory-traffic feeds into a rotary up on your head, where it goes in circles for a while, then pretty soon imagination flows in and the traffic merges and shoots off down a thousand different streets. As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride, putting things down as they come at you. That's the real obsession. All those stories.

  Tim O'Brien

  Memories, Real, Past

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its "hit" and you know more about our species' diversity.

  Penn Jillette

  Smell, Diversity, House

  "Free Celebrity Nudes!". Penn's Columns at Penn & Teller.com, October 15, 1997.

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• Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart.

  William Parrish

  Crazy, Fall, Love You

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• The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

  Carl Honore

  Challenges

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage.

  Carl Honore

  Vacation, Air, Shopping

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Fantasy, Kind

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.

  Neal Shusterman

  Men, Self, Buttons

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• People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." -

  Deb Caletti

  Strong, Determination, Powerful

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• Like everyone else, I have my quirks. For one, I have to own only black cars and the registration has to have eights. It's not something I can explain, it's just there. Another obsession I have is smell. I have to smell good all the time.

  Arjun Rampal

  Smell, Car, Black

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• Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

  Walter Kirn

  Faults, Language, Derrida

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