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Everybody can write writers can't do anything else.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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
Writing
Writers
Everybody
Write
Else
Anything

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Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
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Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
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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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With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.
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The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
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Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.
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Spite is never lonely envy always tags along.
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Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.
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Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.
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Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
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