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- The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those…
- The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
- We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
- If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.
- A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
- All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
- The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
- People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.
- Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
- Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
- It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.
- An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
- Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
- You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
- Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
- When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to…
- All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
- Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.
- Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.
- The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.
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