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The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young… — Joyce Carol Oates
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of… — Yoko Ono
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. — Marcel Proust
I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image. — Kimora Lee Simmons
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. — Stephen Sondheim
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions… — Thomas Szasz
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors. — Gene Tierney
I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point. — Len Wein
I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me. — Len Wein
And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it. — Thom Yorke
My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent. — Helen McCrory
One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic. — Robert Musil
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter… — Anais Nin
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter.… — Terence McKenna
I’m an egotist, but I’m not selfish. There’s a difference. I’m a neurotic, I guess. I can’t stop thinking about myself. It isn’t that I… — Henry Miller
...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic. — Carl Jung
Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people. — Wendy Wasserstein
Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented… — Douglas Adams
He shook his head. "The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a… — Clive Barker
Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. — Tom Robbins
(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.) — Jane Jacobs
Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest… — Max Brooks
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,… — Carl Jung
Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling… — Erich Fromm

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