Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 5

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• Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Absence, Coarse, Vulgar

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• Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

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  Boredom, Causes, Results

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.26, BookBaby

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• The plague of government is senile delinquency.

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  Government, Delinquency, Plague

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

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• A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

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  Money, Husband, Sacrifice

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.30, BookBaby

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• Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

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  Lonely, Anger, Envy

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, BookBaby

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• Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Writing

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.86, BookBaby

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• We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

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  Kindness, War, Compassion

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.75, BookBaby

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• Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.

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  Stalking, Caught, Creatures

  "Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin".

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• Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.

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  God, Thinking, Comfort

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.92, BookBaby

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• Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

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  Forgiving, Dying, Sin

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• Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

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  Society, Bears, Neighbor

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• Despair is anger with no place to go.

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  Adversity, Despair, Places To Go

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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• The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

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  Believe, Neurotic

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

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• I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

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  Life, Tongue, Done

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.70, BookBaby

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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, Keys, Goes On

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.42, BookBaby

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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.

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  Nostalgia, Lost, Bearable

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

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• Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.22, BookBaby

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• Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

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  Sex, Sleep, Animal

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.10, BookBaby

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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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  Animal, People, Might

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

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• With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

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  Women, Struggle, Winning

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.53, BookBaby

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• Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

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  Loneliness, Insomnia, Reality

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.109, BookBaby

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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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  Friendship, Believe, Real Friends

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.78, BookBaby

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• We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

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  Self, Long Ago, Sometimes

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

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• My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?

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  Bitterness, Bitter, My Thoughts

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

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• Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

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  Passion, Heart, Years

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.96, BookBaby

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