Mignon McLaughlin
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Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983) was an American journalist and author.
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- Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
- The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
- A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
- The Second Neurotic's Notebook, Bobbs-Merrill, New York, NY, 1966, p. 11.
- Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
- The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966)
- Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
- The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966)
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- Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
- Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.
- Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
The Neurotic's Notebook
- Most sermons sound to me like commercials — but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
- Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, Bobbs-Merrill, New York, NY, 1966, p. 21
- The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
- What you can't get out of, get into whole-heartedly.
