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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.
In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for.
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.
What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.
Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.
God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.
Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.
Men gossip less than women, but mean it.
Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.
Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
Nobody ever loved anybody like everybody wants to be loved.
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.
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.
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.
Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.
Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.
It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
No woman wants to see herself too clearly.
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.
Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.
Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.
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.
If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.
The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.
Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.
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