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Acedia is not in every dictionary just in every heart.

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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
Heart
Every
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Mankind

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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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There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
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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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Women are the right age for just a few years men, for most of their lives.
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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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Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
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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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Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
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We choose those we like with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
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Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
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Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.
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Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.
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With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.
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Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
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The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
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Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
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If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
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Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
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Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.
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