Mignon McLaughlin quotes
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“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby
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“We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.78, BookBaby
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“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”
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“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.30, BookBaby
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“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”
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“Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.”
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“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : The Neurotic's Notebook ch. 5 (1963)
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“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”
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“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”
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“A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.”
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“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.”
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“Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby
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“The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.”
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“Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.”
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“Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.”
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“Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.65, BookBaby
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“A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.”
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“If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby
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“Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.”
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“In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.”
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“Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.”
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“A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.”
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“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”
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“We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.”
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“How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.”
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“The time to begin most things is ten years ago.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.
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“We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.”
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“The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.”
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“If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.”
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“A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.”
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“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”
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“A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.”
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“I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.”
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“Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.”
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“Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.”
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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”
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“How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.”
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“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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“Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.”
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“Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.”
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“Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby
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“No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.”
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“Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.”
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“The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.”
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“When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.”
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“We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.”
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“In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.”
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“Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.”
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“Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.”
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“Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.”
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“If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.”
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“Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.96, BookBaby
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“When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.”
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“Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.”
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“The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.13, BookBaby
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“There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.”
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“Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.
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“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.”
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“Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.”
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“Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.”
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“Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, BookBaby
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“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.”
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“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : The Neurotic's Notebook ch. 7 (1963)
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“If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.”
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“A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.”
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“Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.”
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“The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.”
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“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.”
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.33, BookBaby
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“Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.”
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“Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.”
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“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
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“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.”
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“No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.”
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“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”
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“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
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“Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.”
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“No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.”
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“Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.”
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“Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions....”
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“You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.”
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“The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.”
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“Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.”
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“We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.”
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“Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.”
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“If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.”
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“Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.”
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“What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.”
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“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”
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“Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.”
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“Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.”
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“If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.”
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“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”
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“We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.”
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“Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.”
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“We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.”
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“Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.”
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“The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.”
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“Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.”
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“There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.”
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“All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.”
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