The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
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The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Theater
“The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Any woman can talk herself into being in love with any man, for a while anyway.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The family unit is man's noblest device for being bored.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“An attractive woman likes feminine company until she's twenty, and after she's twenty-five.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Life's most painful condition: to be almost a celebrity.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“In every group of intimidated people, each thinks "I will rebel," but each waits for the others.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified