Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlinwas an American journalist and author. In the 1950s, she began publishing aphorisms that were later collected in three books, entitled, The Neurotic’s Notebook, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook and The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook. She is known for a number of quotes, among them:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 June 1913
CountryUnited States of America
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What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
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Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.
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We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
children hypocrisy fake
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
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Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.
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When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
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Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.
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When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
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Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
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No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
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In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.
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Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions....
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You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.