Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

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Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

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All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

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Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

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We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.

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The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.

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Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

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In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

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Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

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

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The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

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Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.

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The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.

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Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

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The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

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It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.

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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.

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No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

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A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

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In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

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We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.

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Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

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People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

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

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Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

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Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

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It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

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We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

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Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

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

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