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1 " A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person. "
― Mignon McLaughlin
2 " 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. "
3 " An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. "
4 " What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. "
― Mignon McLaughlin , The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
5 " 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. "
6 " Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. "
7 " It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something. "
8 " Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. "
9 " Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions. "
10 " Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. "
11 " It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. "
― Mignon McLaughlin ,
12 " The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. "
13 " A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. "
14 " We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. "
15 " Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. "
16 " Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun. "
17 " The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. "
18 " The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. "
19 " No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. "
20 " A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. "
