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Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not. -- Dale Archer
I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. -- Khaled Hosseini
I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that. -- Joss Whedon
The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind. -- Phillip Adams
The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. -- Rene Dubos
I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. -- Albert Einstein
I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do. -- Al Franken
The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition. -- Kurt Andersen
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. -- Sigmund Freud
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about. -- Timothy Noah
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional. -- Richard Paul Evans
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on. -- Richard Ford
I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts. -- David Walliams
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth. -- Paul Harding
I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that. -- Milan Kundera
I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline. -- Howard Rheingold
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones. -- Paul Theroux
Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by 'The Grudge 2,' from Takashi Shimizu, a movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points. -- Stephen Hunter
I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards. -- Jenny Eclair
Whatever comedian says he doesn't read comments, I never believe him, because we all have the same pathological problem to see what people think of us, and it sucks, because you try not to take it personally, and people are monsters and idiots. -- Joe Mande
There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments. -- Diablo Cody
I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger. -- Jeremy Clarkson
We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs. -- Marianne Williamson
I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. -- Richard Powers
And I, love, am a pathological liar, -- Sylvia Plath
I have never said authoritarians are pathological -- Bob Altemeyer
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological -- Arthur C. Clarke
I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm. -- Robert Lowell
Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief. -- David Cook
I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken. -- Neko Case
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible. -- H. L. Mencken
...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome. -- David Foster Wallace
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. -- Frank Herbert
Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill. -- Moby
27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers -- John Warren Kindt
Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people. -- Patrick Carnes
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. -- Robert Breault
Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological. -- Michael Medved
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth. -- Scott Peterson
Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice. -- Constantin Stanislavski
It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live. -- Bryan Fuller
I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals? -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts. -- Sophie Calle
Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life. -- Meg Cabot
Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes. -- Emo Philips
...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings. -- Arno Gruen
Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological. -- Elizabeth Bowen
It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired. -- Mila Kunis
It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological, -- Michael Warner
Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith. -- Alan Aldridge
Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors. -- John Archibald Wheeler
We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue. -- Eve Ensler
Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol. -- Mel Lawrenz
What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves. -- John Naughton
I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel. -- Sally Field
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological! -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological. -- Charles Bernheimer
I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development. -- Carl Jung
A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands. -- Neale Donald Walsch
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness. -- Terry Eagleton
Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder. -- Steve Blake
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static. -- Bill Moyers
A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998. -- Selena Roberts
Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers -- John Warren Kindt
I've made my life's work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it's harder now than ever before because there's so many socially acceptable ways to exhibit a pathological lack of empathy. -- Merrill Markoe
It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis. -- Sigmund Freud
As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping. -- Tina Turner
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. -- Albert Einstein

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