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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
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the United States of America
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Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
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Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
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A doctor recently described to me benign positional vertigo: it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change vertigo to anxiety, and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.
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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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Acedia is not in every dictionary just in every heart.
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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
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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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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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We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
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We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
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Love requires a willingness to die marriage, a willingness to live.
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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
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Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.
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People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.
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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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Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
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Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
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Spite is never lonely envy always tags along.
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Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
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It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
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