#neurotics

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#editing #editing-humor #editors #joy #neurosis

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies. ↗

— François Truffaut

#cinema #neurotics #life

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

#comes #complain #defend #her #illness

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#i #jews #lincoln #moses #neurotics

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#bed #between #character #connection #intimate

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cocky #discuss #discussion #know #letting

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#comes #composed #everything #founded #great

We're all controlled neurotics. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#neurotics

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#build #castles #cleans #live #mother