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Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're busy writing, describing the fine-grained flotsam of your own life. Compulsively recording every morsel you eat, that you're cold, or, I don't know, heartbroken by a football game. An endless stream flowing to an audience of everyone and no one.

~ Alena Graedon

Alena Graedon Compulsive Connect Reading Writing

Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.

~ Simona Panova

Simona Panova Accomplish Afraid Appreciate Boy Compulsive Dark Fail Failure Fear Fears Female Fiction Girl Goth Gothic Gothic Romance Horrified Horror Lose Loss Love Loved Loving Male Man Myself Mysterious Mystery Obsessed Obsession Obsessive Oneself Praise Relationship Relationships Romance Romantic Scared Scary Strength Strong Victory Win Woman Young Adult Gothic Romance Young Adult Romance

The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive. For years she had been the first thing I remembered when I woke up, the last thing that drifted through my mind as I went to sleep, and during the day she came to me obtrusively, obsessively, always with a painful shock.

~ Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt Ache Anguish Compulsion Compulsive Hopeless Memory Obsession Pain Unrequited Love

Culture alone cannot explain the phenomena of such high rates of eating disorders. Eating disorders are complex, but what they all seem to have in common is the ability to distract women from the memories, sensations, and experience of the sexual abuse through starving, bingeing, purging, or exercising. They keep the focus on food, body image, weight, fat, calories, diets, miles, and other factors that women focus on during the course of an eating disorder. These disorders also have the ability to numb a woman from the overwhelming emotions resulting from the sexual abuse — especially loss of control, terror, and shame about her body. Women often have a combination of eating disorders in in their history. Some women are anorexic during one period of their life, bulimic during another, and compulsive eaters at yet another stage.

~ Karen A. Duncan

Karen A. Duncan Anorexic Binge Body Image Body Shame Bulimic Child Sexual Abuse Compulsive Culture Eating Disorders Emotions Numbe Overwhelming Purge Sexual Abuse Shame Women

My compulsive thoughts aren't even thoughts, they're absolute certainties and obeying them isn't a choice.

~ Paul Rudnick

Paul Rudnick Anxiety Certainty Compulsive Ocd

PharaohsIt took Khufu twenty-three years to build his Great Pyramid at Giza, where some eleven hundred stone blocks, each weighing about two and a half tons, had to be quarried, moved, and set in place every day during the annual building season, roughly four months long. Few commentators on these facts can resist noting that this achievement is an amazing testimonial to the pharaoh’s iron control over the workers of Egypt. I submit, on the contrary, that pharaoh Khufu needed to exercise no more control over his workers at Giza than pharaoh Bill Gates exercises over his workers at Microsoft. I submit that Egyptian workers, relatively speaking, got as much out of building Khufu’s pyramid as Microsoft workers will get out of building Bill Gates’s pyramid (which will surely dwarf Khufu’s a hundred times over, though it will not, of course, be built of stone).No special control is needed to make people into pyramid builders—if they see themselves as having no choice but to build pyramids. They’ll build whatever they’re told to build, whether it’s pyramids, parking garages, or computer programs.Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can’t stop doing, we love it so much.

~ Daniel Quinn

Daniel Quinn Civilization Compulsive Purpose
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