
“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”
Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”
Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
“This is what you love. This is your obsession, I know what it's like to be different. Embrace it.”
“Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art”
Comment http://www.livejournal.com/users/dinosaurcomics/31123.html?thread=753043#t753043
Address to United Nations General Assembly http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1987/092187b.htm (21 September 1987)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)
Context: Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?
“I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction… my obsession…”
Variant: You're an addiction... my obsession...
Source: Bared to You
In Question Time, c. March 2012
"Labor cleans up after aftermath" http://www.abc.net.au/insiders/content/2012/s3445116.htm, in Insiders (ABC), 4 March 2012