The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
Quotes from The Complete Neurotic's Notebook — Mignon McLaughlin
1913–1983
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What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage.
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The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity and always its result.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
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We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mignon McLaughlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.