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

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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
Wholeheartedly
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Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
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If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.
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Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
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We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.
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It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
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Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.
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Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
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Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
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The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.
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The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
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You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
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