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The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.

Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
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Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
Exasperation
Mass
Quiet
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Men

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The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.
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A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.
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If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.
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A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.
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In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.
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Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?
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Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.
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Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.
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Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.
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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
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I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.
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Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.
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Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
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What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.
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How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.
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Time is the thief you cannot banish.
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Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.
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The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.
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Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
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