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21 " 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
22 " Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. "
― Mignon McLaughlin ,
23 " Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. "
24 " Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. "
25 " Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer. "
26 " True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. "
27 " The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. "
28 " Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. "
― Mignon McLaughlin , The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
29 " In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. "
30 " Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. "
31 " Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had "
32 " The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing. "
33 " There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. "
34 " Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show. "
35 " The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. "
36 " Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. "
37 " We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. "
38 " Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. "
39 " Even cowards can endure hardship; only he brave can endure suspense "
40 " Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play. "