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Mignon McLaughlin
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“If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Between two married couples there are five possibilities for friendship: man to man, woman to woman, each man to the woman not his wife, and couple to couple. It's seldom that more than two of these will actually materialize.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about that anymore.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neurotic: Someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mark of the neurotic: to imagine that you're the only one who cares deeply for anything.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Broadway audiences are dependably square. "Well, I'll be a son of a bitch" always gets a laugh; spoken by a little old lady, it brings down the house.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn’t either.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source