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It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.
I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
I'm very neurotic about shaving. I shave first thing in the morning before a shoot, and if I have dinner that night, I have to shave again.
I'm very neurotic is what my closet says about me. It's always in great order.
It's amazing how a simple brief phone call can pick up the spirits of the most dejected hamster, the most stressed goldfish and the most neurotic cat.
People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life.' It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.
Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
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.