George Sand
Novelist, Memoirist
"The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession."
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Obsession
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Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession."
Billie Jean King
Tennis Player
"No one changes the world who isn't obsessed."
Marguerite Young
Author
"I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
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"You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession."
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"In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies."
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"I will be my undoing If I become my obsession."
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"If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making."
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"A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art."
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"For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline."
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"The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts."
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"It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey."
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"Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average."
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"Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word."
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"I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess."
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"Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness."
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"The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work."
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"I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing."
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"Until your mission is an obsession, nothing will change in your life."
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"I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later."
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"Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession."
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"My New Obsession... is YOUR DESTRUCTION!!"
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"Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure."
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"A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions."
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