Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

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It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.

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Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers.

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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

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What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

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Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

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If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

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Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

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A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

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Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

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I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.

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We are all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

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

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What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

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The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

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There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.

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

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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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Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

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The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

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Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

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Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

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It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

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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.

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Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

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The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

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The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

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

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

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