All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

Mary Roach
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  1. Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well. - Anonymous

  2. Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of youwith my heart... - Rainer Maria Rilke

  3. All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir,... - Umberto Eco

  4. One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing intoa habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating. - Niyi Osundare

  5. Life is obsession and so is reading :D - Rukamanee Maharjan

More Quotes By Mary Roach
  1. It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family...

  2. As when astronaut Mike Mulhane was asked by a NASA psychiatrist what epitaph he'd like to have on his gravestone, Mulhane answered, "A loving husband and devoted father, " though in reality, he jokes in "Riding Rockets, " "I would have sold my wife and...

  3. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

  4. Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

  5. It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that–the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel...

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