Mignon McLaughlin quotes - page 5

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later. View quote
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After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage! View quote
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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. View quote
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Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too. View quote
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At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic. View quote
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An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. View quote
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Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. View quote
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Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat. View quote
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I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary. View quote
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Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those changes that would make all the difference. (Mignon McLaughlin)
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. View quote
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The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. View quote
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Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's. View quote
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Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. View quote
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The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. View quote
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We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. View quote
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Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't. View quote
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We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. View quote
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All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. View quote
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Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down. View quote
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The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. View quote
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Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend. View quote
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If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors. View quote
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