Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
1913–1983
Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 – December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author.
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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.
There's little enough to be said for nationalism, so let's say it and have done.
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy; whiskey and action are easier.
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?
If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.
The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mignon McLaughlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.