Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. Mignon McLaughlin More Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin More Quotes From Mignon McLaughlin It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? Mignon McLaughlin agingagelong The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. Mignon McLaughlin excessforeverlove Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere. Mignon McLaughlin flirtyflirtingmen If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject. Mignon McLaughlin flirtyflirtingtalking Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. Mignon McLaughlin congratulationsand-lovelove-is Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first. Mignon McLaughlin parentmombaby We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for. Mignon McLaughlin best-loveready It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. Mignon McLaughlin wishmenyears The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. Mignon McLaughlin your-pastfeelspast The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. Mignon McLaughlin poloniusworldthinking The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out. Mignon McLaughlin barsdoorsmean Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't. Mignon McLaughlin neuroticremember Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. Mignon McLaughlin cuttinghalfwant The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which. Mignon McLaughlin visioneyeperfect The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. Mignon McLaughlin neuroticfantasyreal 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. Mignon McLaughlin anxietydoctorsmean Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. Mignon McLaughlin oddpeopleway The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. Mignon McLaughlin drowninganxietyhalf Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. Mignon McLaughlin emergenciesbearslife Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. Mignon McLaughlin citizenschoicesclass
