Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 14

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• It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Trying, Easy

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.38, BookBaby

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• Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Funny Relationship, Men, Down And

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.48, BookBaby

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• Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Trying, Trouble, Nobody Knows

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• Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Patterns, Unpredictable, Uniqueness

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.43, BookBaby

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• Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

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  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.29, BookBaby

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• The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Track, Enemy, Minutes

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Dream, Inspiration, Goal

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

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• The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hate, Lying, Night

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Beautiful, Character, Feminist

  "Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin".

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• When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Money, Speak

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.98, BookBaby

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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.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Writing, Keys, Typewriters

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

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• A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mean, Doctors, Anxiety

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.89, BookBaby

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• The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Anxiety, Half, Drowning

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Eye, Perfect, Vision

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Valentines Day, Names

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.23, BookBaby

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• Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cash, Despise, Turns

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.98, BookBaby

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• Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Masters, Hard, Opportunism

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.68, BookBaby

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• Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Touching, Middle, Back Again

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.65, BookBaby

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• Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Rewards, Settling, Broke

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.97, BookBaby

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• The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Rooms, Moments, Strikes

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

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  Years, Two, Psychology

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.107, BookBaby

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• Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

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  Children, Growing Up, Knowing

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.34, BookBaby

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• If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Succeed, Firsts, Failing

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

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  Done, Best Work, Has Beens

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• Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

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  Suffering, Doe, Neurotic

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.68, BookBaby

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