"The impulse to write things down is a……" — Joan Didion

More Compulsive Quotes

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• I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has… — David Beckham
• Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those… — David Bohm
• I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short… — Jane Campion
• I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands. — Kelly Clarkson
• I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in… — Fiona Apple
• Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment… — Unknown Author
• Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront… — Sogyal Rinpoche
• Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and… — Barbara Oakley
• When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our… — Elizabeth I
• Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid… — Martin Gardner
• I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking. — Deepika Padukone
• Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that. — Courtney Thorne Smith

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