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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin
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There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.Mignon McLaughlin
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An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.Mignon McLaughlin
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What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.Mignon McLaughlin
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Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.Mignon McLaughlin
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Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.Mignon McLaughlin
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It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child–at least till you try to get him to do something.Mignon McLaughlin
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Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.Mignon McLaughlin
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Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.Mignon McLaughlin
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Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.Mignon McLaughlin
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.Mignon McLaughlin
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The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.Mignon McLaughlin
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A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.Mignon McLaughlin
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We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.Mignon McLaughlin
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Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.Mignon McLaughlin
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Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.Mignon McLaughlin
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The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.Mignon McLaughlin
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What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.Mignon McLaughlin
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A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.Mignon McLaughlin
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin
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If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.Mignon McLaughlin
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Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.Mignon McLaughlin
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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.Mignon McLaughlin
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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.Mignon McLaughlin
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It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.Mignon McLaughlin
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It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to our friendship that we are not.Mignon McLaughlin
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We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.Mignon McLaughlin
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For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.Mignon McLaughlin
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In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.Mignon McLaughlin
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No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.Mignon McLaughlin
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Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.Mignon McLaughlin
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Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.Mignon McLaughlin
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We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.Mignon McLaughlin
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Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.Mignon McLaughlin
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A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.Mignon McLaughlin
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin
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Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.Mignon McLaughlin
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Even cowards can endure hardship only the brave can endure suspense.Mignon McLaughlin
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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.Mignon McLaughlin
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A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.Mignon McLaughlin
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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.Mignon McLaughlin
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We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.Mignon McLaughlin
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Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.Mignon McLaughlin
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We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.Mignon McLaughlin
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If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.Mignon McLaughlin
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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.Mignon McLaughlin
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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.Mignon McLaughlin