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Neurotic Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
- No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
- The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
- The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
- As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.
- The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.
- The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.
- 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.
- At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
- 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.
- Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.
- Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
- The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.
- Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.
- A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily…
- The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
- The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.
- Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.
- Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.
- Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.
- Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
- The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.
- The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.
- Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
- The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
- Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
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