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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. — Khaled Hosseini

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind. — Phillip Adams

Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes. — Emo Philips

I developed a pathological pride and the insane conviction that it was my mission to teach people without knowing what I was teaching them. — Leo Tolstoy

I have never said authoritarians are pathological — Bob Altemeyer

A distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings. — Arno Gruen

It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological, — Michael Warner

A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body's normal response to fear, stress or excitement. — Abhijit Naskar

Society remains unflagging in its almost pathological pursuit of material self-interest. — William Marsden

People who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions. — Tom Clancy

Dr. Steven Bratman has coined the term orthorexia nervosa, a pathological fixation on eating proper food. — Lierre Keith

I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken. — Neko Case

It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live. — Bryan Fuller

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional. — Richard Paul Evans

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition. — Kurt Andersen

And I, love, am a pathological liar. — Sylvia Plath

I expected something pathological, but I did not expect the depth, the violence, and the almost intolerable beauty of the disease. — Kurt Vonnegut

I wish I knew how to quit you, political jokers and pathological liars ... — Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue. — Eve Ensler

My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of. — Banana Yoshimoto

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible. — H.L. Mencken

Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which ... obsession replaces people. — Patrick Carnes

He lies to himself the way he lies to me. He believes this. He actually believes that he was good to me. — Paula Hawkins

The world is full of angry, pathological individuals pushing pieces of paper with obscene messages under doors. — Azar Nafisi

But fist, I want you to understand one thing: apart from certain pathological cases, people only go insane when they try to escspe from routine. — Paulo Coelho

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice. — Constantin Stanislavski

I am conscious of a partly pathological hostility toward what is fashionable. — C.S. Lewis

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals? — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. — Robert Breault

Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol. — Mel Lawrenz

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm. — Robert Lowell

Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill. — Moby

I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel. — Sally Field

Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief. — David Cook

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom. — Alison Bechdel

A measure of narcissism is healthy. But out of balance, what was once appropriate self-confidence becomes grandiose, pathological, and destructive. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome. — David Foster Wallace

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. — Rene Dubos

Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I never lie, Mrs. Dutton. I'm a pathological truth-teller. — Lauren Groff

Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured. — Mary Lawrence

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts. — Sophie Calle

looking for fights - encouraging and even creating controversy thinking that God wills it - is pathological. — Peter Enns

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological. — Elizabeth Bowen

The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind ... so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar? — Neal Shusterman

Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological. — Michael Medved

In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy. — Dorothy Dunnett

The gods are alone, and when they stroll, by chance, on earth, they are pathological cases or buffoons, or histrions ... who are despised! — Rachilde

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein

My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me. — Olivia Sudjic

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you! — Susan Forward

Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth. — Scott Peterson

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. — Sigmund Freud

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do. — Al Franken

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological — Arthur C. Clarke

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life. — Meg Cabot

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on. — Richard Ford

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. — Frank Herbert

I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that. — Joss Whedon

The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal. — Stephen D. Krashen

It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired. — Mila Kunis

Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith. — Alan Aldridge

I look upon those who assure me they had a 'happy childhood' as either pathological liars, or pariahs. — Harlan Ellison

Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors. — John Archibald Wheeler

Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological. — Rebecca Scherm