Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 15

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• To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Believe, People, Interesting

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• People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

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  People, Want, Affair

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.96, BookBaby

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• Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

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  Suffering, Doe, Neurotic

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.68, BookBaby

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• The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.

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  Analysts, Psychiatry, Neurotic

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.45, BookBaby

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• Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

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  Love, Valentines Day, Names

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.23, BookBaby

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• The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

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  Years, Two, Psychology

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.107, BookBaby

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• If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.

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  Dream, Inspiration, Goal

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

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• God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!

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  Mankind, Bounty

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.93, BookBaby

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• It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Character, Feminist

  "Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin".

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• An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

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  Writing, Keys, Typewriters

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

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• Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

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  Children, Growing Up, Knowing

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.34, BookBaby

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• If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.

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  Worry, Worried, Ifs

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• Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

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  Done, Best Work, Has Beens

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• When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Money, Speak

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.98, BookBaby

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• The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

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  Rooms, Moments, Strikes

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

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  Rewards, Settling, Broke

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.97, BookBaby

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• Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

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  Touching, Middle, Back Again

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.65, BookBaby

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• The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

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  Anxiety, Half, Drowning

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• 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

  Mean, Doctors, Anxiety

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.89, BookBaby

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• The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

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  Eye, Perfect, Vision

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

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  Creativity, Creative, Pleasure

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• The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.

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  Voice, Next

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• Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.

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  Corners, Knows, Around The Corner

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• Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

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  Masters, Hard, Opportunism

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.68, BookBaby

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• Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

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  Cash, Despise, Turns

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.98, BookBaby

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