The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
Mignon McLaughlin
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.”
“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
“We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”
“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.”
“We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.”
“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”
“It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.”
“Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.”
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Book Keywords:
perception, doubt, change, humor, love, forgiveness, family, family-relationships, children, behavior, self-consciousness, family-history
