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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. Alfred Adler | top
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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. Alfred Adler | top
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I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part. Kirstie Alley | top
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My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. Martha Beck | top
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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. Marlon Brando | top
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All currency is neurotic currency. Norman O. Brown | top
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I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time. Phil Donahue | top
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In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients. Hans Eysenck | top
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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do. Ralph Fiennes | top
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I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic. Bridget Fonda | top
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. Anatole France | top
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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 | top
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My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her. John Hurt | top
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My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know. James Earl Jones | top
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All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal. Deborah Kerr | top
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If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. Sylvia Plath | top
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Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that. Jon Ronson | top
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Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. Rita Rudner | top
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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. John Stamos | top
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Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. Thomas Szasz | top
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It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors. Gene Tierney | top
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. Lionel Trilling | top
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I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point. Len Wein | top
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I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me. Len Wein | top
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And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it. Thom Yorke | top
