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Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)


American journalist and author.
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We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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There's little enough to be said for nationalism, so let's say it and have done.




Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?
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Money is the best counterfeit money.
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
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The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
Any woman can talk herself into being in love with any man, for a while anyway.
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Don't be yourself-be someone a little nicer.
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The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
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The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.




Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.
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Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
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Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.
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We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.
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The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.
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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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In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
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