Mignon McLaughlin
Journalist
1913-06-06
Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
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Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
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It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child— at least till you try to get him to do something.
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Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
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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.
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What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
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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.
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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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.
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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.
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What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
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Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.
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Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
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It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child— at least till you try to get him to do something.
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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.
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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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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
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A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
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Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
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No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
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