The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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“If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Air that has been much quarreled in becomes very hard to breathe.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“What you can't get out of, get into whole-heartedly.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Don't be yourself-be someone a little nicer.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“If you had an unhappy childhood, you will always want to sleep late in the morning.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“We tell our children things which we know are not so, but which we wish were so.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I’m ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified