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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver
Obsession
"Among the wild things" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2000.

My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish poems to my "crappy poems" file.

Anna Journey
Couple, Book, Obsession
Source: therumpus.net

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

Angel Haze
Desire, Goes On, Obsession
"Rapper Angel Haze on religion, rape and survival" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2013.

It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.

Amber Dermont
Silly, People, Obsession
Amber Dermont (2012). “The Starboard Sea: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

Women have this obsession with shoes.

Alexandra Paul
Shoes, Obsession

... obsessions are always dangerous.

Agatha Christie
Obsession, Dangerous
Agatha Christie (1944). “Crime reader”

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

Adrian Tan
Each Day, Enthusiasm, Obsession

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