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Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
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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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Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.
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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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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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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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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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The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.
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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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The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
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Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
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There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.
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The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
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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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The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.
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Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer — but not for anything very much, either.
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Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
Mignon McLaughlin
Born:
June 6, 1913
Died:
December 20, 1983
(aged 70)
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