Neurotic Selections from
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 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. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 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. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone – until they do. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 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. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 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. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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