#obsess

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. ↗

— Leon Edel

#become #biographer #eyes #four #literary

I’d once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture… you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death! ↗

— Tom Conrad

#apocalypse #end-of-the-world #gatsby #heroes #heroic

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories. ↗

— Amber Benson

#grew #i #i love #just #kid

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#college #film #i #obsessed #part

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#father #life-long #line #long #long story

I was obsessed with being rich and famous. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#being rich #famous #i #obsessed #rich

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#beauty #because #course #everything #i

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show. ↗

— Vanessa Marcil

#curves #get #i #look #more

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life. ↗