Mignon McLaughlin

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 (1963)

• Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
  • The Neurotic's Notebook (1963), ch. 5. (Often misattributed to Jean Kerr.)

• 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)

• Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
  • The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966)

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• Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

• 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.

• A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.