The Complete Neurotic's Notebook Quotes

“Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“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.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook