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Source: All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

“I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Would Be Glad Compulsion

Author:Pete Seeger

“Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.”

Needs Use Past Beautiful Views Advantage Experience Block Abortion Yield Limbs Statues Compulsion Sprung

Author:Walter Benjamin

“Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?”

Way Needs Language Levels Records Experience Passing Passings Preserves Rising Compulsion Verify

Book:(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

“There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.”

Reason Action Sides Mom Angel Endure Bars Judged Flags Adequate Compulsion Expediency

Book:For Love and Money: A Writing Life

Source: For Love and Money: A Writing Life

“Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.”

People Ifs Writing Whole Hands Pay Type Consequence Awful Thirty Heroic Compulsion

Book:Sex & Sensibility

Source: Sex & Sensibility

“Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in scattering them abroad generously with joy and magnanimity, not reluctantly or under compulsion.”

Christian Joy Benefits Fellows Servant Orthodox Compulsion Orthodox Christian Cheerfulness Magnanimity

Book:Symeon New Theologian

Source: Symeon New Theologian

“I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.”

Eye School Moving Science Turns Nations Black Water Views Education Europe Harmony University Heavy Rage Wheels Folds Compulsion Newton Eden Cogs Wreaths

Book:Blake: The Complete Poems

Source: Blake: The Complete Poems

“I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.”

“I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.”

Writing Years Children Two Five Months England My Children Holiday Two Years Bricks Compulsion Lanes

Author:Monica Ali

“Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.”

People Ifs Writing Home Wanted School Asks Felt High School Ask Me Hanging Out Compulsion

Author:Amanda Hocking

“As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.”

Way Children Use Sound Voice Emotional Lessons Singing Scream Opera Compulsion Formidable Opera Singing

Author:Zola Jesus

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