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Mignon McLaughlin was an American journalist and author, celebrated for her witty and insightful observations on life. Her most famous works are the "Neurotic’s Notebook" series, which contain memorable, sharp epigrams. She is remembered for her keen psychological insights and timeless quotes. Here are 282 of her quotes:

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. (Mignon McLaughlin)
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. View quote
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Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. View quote
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The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about. View quote
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The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which. View quote
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Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke. View quote
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The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances. View quote
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We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. View quote
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When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy. View quote
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A new wound makes all the old ones ache again. View quote
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My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts? (Mignon McLaughlin)
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. View quote
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You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. View quote
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We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others. View quote
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The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport. View quote
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Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence. View quote
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Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. View quote
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Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born. View quote
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There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure. View quote
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The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth. View quote
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Mignon McLaughlin

Occupation: American Journalist
Born: June 6, 1913
Died: December 20, 1983
Quotes count: 282
Wikipedia: Mignon McLaughlin

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