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Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. -- Rita Rudner
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. -- Sigmund Freud
Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities ... -- Muriel Spark
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note. -- Mignon McLaughlin
[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself. -- Karen Horney
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. -- Mignon McLaughlin
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
We're all controlled neurotics. -- Harry Reasoner
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias. -- Karl Abraham
Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics. -- Larry Flynt
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. -- Marcel Proust
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. -- Sigmund Freud
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. -- Vladimir Nabokov
All neurotics seek the religious -- Carl Jung
Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics. -- Pat Barker
At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin! -- Mignon McLaughlin
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Jack Sprat could eat no fat,His wife could eat no lean. A real sweet pair of neurotics. -- Jack Sharkey
History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics. -- George Orwell
The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities. -- Boris Sidis
He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest -- Alfred Adler
All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art. -- Marcel Proust
The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves. -- Marcel Proust
We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children. -- Herman J. Mankiewicz
We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being. -- Nancy Hale
There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics. -- Florence King

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