Mignon McLaughlin - Life Quotes

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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.

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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

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Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

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One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

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Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

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Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

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

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Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.

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

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

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Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.

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

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