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I have seen messed-up people of forty who still seemed salvageable, and children of six or seven who almost surely were not.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to weave.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. People might not return it; or worse, they might.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
The plague of government is senile delinquency.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Between a man and a woman both aged fifty there are two full generations, for she might well wed a man in his seventies, and he a girl of twenty.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
If he suddenly falls in love with someone else, a husband may not start wanting a divorce; but if he suddenly makes a lot of money, he usually will.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Bored with your present enemies? Make new ones! Tell two of your women friends that they look alike.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting that we have just had one.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)