Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 6

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• Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Lying, Entrepreneur, Fields

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.74, BookBaby

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• Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Past, Thinking, Resentment

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.108, BookBaby

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• Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Time, Children, Memorable

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

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• No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Indecisive, Difficult, Neurotic

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

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• We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Character, Personality, Admire

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• Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Parent, Remember

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.39, BookBaby

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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.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Teenage, Thinking

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.106, BookBaby

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• Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Women, Water, Waiting

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.46, BookBaby

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• As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Age, Aging, Capacity

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.71, BookBaby

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• It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Doe, Done, Harm

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby

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• Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Happiness, Miserable, Week

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

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• I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Fall, Bread, Sides

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.110, BookBaby

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• Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Thinking, Laughing, Theatre

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

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• When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Falling In Love, Firsts, Feels

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.24, BookBaby

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• We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Purpose, Helping, Manners

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

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• A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Women, Littles, Able

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

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• No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Confused, Way, Wanted To Be Loved

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• There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Iron, Three, Links

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Soul, Bypass, Confession

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

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• Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Play, Groups, Novel

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.88, BookBaby

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• When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hungry

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby

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• Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Get Better, Sometimes

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• Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Remember, Neurotic

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

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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.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Family, Children, Blessed

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

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• If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Integrity, Work, Sake

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

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