Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

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If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.

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Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.

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It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

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

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

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God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.

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There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

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The three horrors of modern life — talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

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It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

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There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

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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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Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

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An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

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In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

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Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

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How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

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Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.

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Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

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Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

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The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

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My doctor is nice; every time I see him I'm ashamed of what I think about doctors in general.

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No-one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

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