Mignon McLaughlin - Neurotic Quotes

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There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

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Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

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The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

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Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.

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Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

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Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

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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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The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone — until they do.

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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.

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No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

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The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

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The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

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Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.

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The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.

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After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.

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Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

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The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.

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Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

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The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

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Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.

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At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

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Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

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When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?

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The neurotic would like to trust his analyst — if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't — because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.

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Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

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Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

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Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

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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 changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.

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If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

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The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

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