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I do not trust those who are above name-dropping. The suppression of small vices always exacts too high a toll.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Broadway audiences are dependably square. "Well, I'll be a son of a bitch" always gets a laugh; spoken by a little old lady, it brings down the house.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
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)
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
I often pray, though I’m not really sure Anyone’s listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He’s literary.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
We are all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us manage to remain greedy.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
We tell our children things which we know are not so, but which we wish were so.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)