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Aperçus compiles a selection of aphorisms from the renowned author Mignon McLaughlin, offering a glimpse into her sharp wit and profound observations on life and human nature.
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“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
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“Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.”
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“Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.”
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“Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.”
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“The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.”
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“Despair is anger with no place to go.”
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“The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.”
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“Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.”
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“What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.”
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“Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.”
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“The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.”
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“It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?”
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“As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.”
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“In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.”
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“The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.”
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“The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.”
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“The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.”
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“I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.”
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“Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.”
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“We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.”
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“If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.”
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“If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.”
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“A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.”
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“We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.”
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“In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.”
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“I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.”
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“All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.”
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“Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.”
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“No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.”
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“Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.”
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“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”
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“The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.”
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“To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.”
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“Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.”
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“God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!”
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“God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.”
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“People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.”
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“If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.”
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“Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.”
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“Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.”
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“Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.”
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“Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.”
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“Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.”
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“Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.”
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“What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.”
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“Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.”
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“It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.”
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“Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.”
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“After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.”
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“I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.”
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