"You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations."

-- Robert Mapplethorpe

#Obligation Quotes

“Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.”
“But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.”
“Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.”
“It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.”
“The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels.”
“The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.”
“It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.”
“Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.”

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