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Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
Dream
Great
Good
Life
Neurotics
Neurotic
Note
Suicide
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The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.
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A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
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Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
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Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.
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Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
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It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
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Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
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A doctor recently described to me benign positional vertigo: it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change vertigo to anxiety, and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.
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If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.
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The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
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With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.
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