#bse

The Dark Ages are alive and secretly thriving like a herpes infection among us. ↗

— Juliette Fay

#observations-on-life #unexpected-humor #unexpected-life #wry #age

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself. ↗

— Robert Towne

#almost #develop #dialogue #drawn #ear

If someone is going out of his way to ignore you, he is not ignoring you, he is obsessed by you. ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#obsessed #age

Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#obsession #age

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. ↗

— Claude Monet

#genius #obsession #passion #art

I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#life #observe #art

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#fault #get #horror #i #matter

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. ↗

— Xun Zi

#big #big picture #clouded #everyone #fear

I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again. "No." "I want to." "Well, you go then." You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it ↗

— Lucy Christopher

#obsession #beauty

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#observation #beauty