{"quotes":[{"text":"Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.","author":"Jazz Feylynn","tags":["addictive","anonymous","book","book-a-holic","character","compulsion","cure","eyes","feylynn","holic","ink","jazz","jazz-feylynn","life","life-and-times","lost-of-time","pages","paper","read","reading","reading-books","reading-habit","squint","story","texture","thought-on-reading","time","times","word","written"],"id":1891,"author_id":"Jazz+Feylynn"},{"text":"I reeled with giddiness - flames passed before my eyes.I remembered those precipices that drew one towards them with irresistible power - wells that have had to be filled up because of persons throwing themselves into them - trees that have had to be cut down because of people hanging themselves upon them - the contagion of suicide and theft and murder, which at various times has taken possession of people's minds, by means well understood; that strange inducement, which makes people kill themselves because others kill themselves. My hair rose upon my head with horror!('The Invisible Eye').","author":"Erckmann-Chatrian","tags":["compulsion","evil","suicide"],"id":4690,"author_id":"Erckmann-Chatrian"},{"text":"The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.","author":"Joan Didion","tags":["compulsion","writing"],"id":11810,"author_id":"Joan+Didion"},{"text":"It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.","author":"Martina Boone","tags":["accomplishment","accomplishments","ambition","compulsion","hard-work","inspiration","martina-boone","shoes","success"],"id":83090,"author_id":"Martina+Boone"},{"text":"Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.","author":"Martina Boone","tags":["beautiful-boy","compulsion","dating","love","martina-boone","romance","short-time","southern-gothic","time","ya"],"id":89460,"author_id":"Martina+Boone"},{"text":"When I am fully immersed in my work of nourishing humanity, it fills my head with all kinds of feel-good chemicals, such as endorphins, serotonin and dopamine. Problems occur during the brief intervals between the finishing of one work and the beginning of another. During these intervals, my biology starts to get filled with stress hormones cortisol and adrenalin, that worsens my OCD. That is why, I can’t sit still even a day after I finish writing a book. Because if I do, my OCD begins to suffocate me inside my head. Hence, as soon as I deliver a work, I have to start working on my next scientific literature.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["biology","compulsion","genius","genius-thinkers","genius-writers","inspirational","neurobiology","neuropsychology","neuroscience","neurotheology","obsession","ocd","passion","thinker","thinkers-of-our-time"],"id":93376,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.","author":"Ursula K. Le Guin","tags":["compulsion","destiny","fate"],"id":113580,"author_id":"Ursula+K.+Le+Guin"},{"text":"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.","author":"John Milton","tags":["compulsion","music","poetry","sweet"],"id":118968,"author_id":"John+Milton"},{"text":"If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if.","author":"Avakruth","tags":["compulsion","confusion","life","meaning","understanding"],"id":121804,"author_id":"Avakruth"},{"text":"An innate, typically fixed pattern of behaviour is our instinct. A sense of intuitive thought/feeling. An urge, an inner prompting, a drive, a compulsion. That quirky urge, that little voice inside you, those gut feelings is what emerges naturally within you in a particular situation to react with outer world. Every instinct is an impulse. Feel it, trust it, follow it, because when you've whittled down your options and are stuck at a crossroads, that is what gets you through it! That good old instinct feeling.","author":"Angie karan","tags":["an-innate","an-urge","compulsion","every-instinct-is-an-impulse","feeling","that-quirky-urge"],"id":123418,"author_id":"Angie+karan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}