The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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“What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Theater
“Did that leave an undesirable taste in your mouth? Let’s take a swig.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us manage to remain greedy.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life work.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Women are never landlocked: they’re always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy; whiskey and action are easier.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Money is the best counterfeit money.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Good-looking girls break hearts, and good-hearted girls mend them.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity and always its result.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“I am as I am" is another way of saying "I can do without your love.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Theater
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny?"”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“When children are bored, it reflects on us all.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love