Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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If you’re a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched out pages.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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We’re all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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There are whole years for which I hope I’ll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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How strange that the young should always think the world is against them when in fact that is the only time it is for them.
- 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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A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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Don’t be yourself be someone a little nicer.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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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 put them in my mouth.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life work.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn’t even know they carried.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it’s made you a mess, but you won’t die from it.
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We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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