Quotes from The Complete Neurotic's Notebook — Mignon McLaughlin
1913–1983
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The family unit is man's noblest device for being bored.
Life's most painful condition: to be almost a celebrity.
The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.
What you can't get out of, get into whole-heartedly.
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.
Sooner or later, they govern who are determined to.
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.
What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
When children are bored, it reflects on us all.
Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac.
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
Don't be yourself-be someone a little nicer.
Being Irish is, no matter how real, a pose.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mignon McLaughlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.