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Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself. (Mignon McLaughlin)
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. View quote
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The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all. View quote
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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. View quote
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The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me. View quote
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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. View quote
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The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself. View quote
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Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country. View quote
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Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated. View quote
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The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. View quote
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Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible they are right. View quote
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Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. View quote
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Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. View quote
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Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can. View quote
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It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful. View quote
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Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. View quote
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Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result. View quote
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Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. View quote
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In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. View quote
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No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. (Mignon McLaughlin)
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. View quote
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We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. View quote
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What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. View quote
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In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one. 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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