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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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“A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.”
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“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”
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“How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.”
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“What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.”
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“Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.”
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“Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.”
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“Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.”
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“A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.”
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“Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.”
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“Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.”
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“Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.”
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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”
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“Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.”
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“Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.”
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“A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.”
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“There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.”
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“We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"”
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“Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.”
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“We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.”
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“Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.”
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“Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.”
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“We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?”
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“Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.”
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“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”
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“The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.”
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“Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.”
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“You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.”
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“No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.”
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“I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.”
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“Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.”
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“Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.”
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“Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.”
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“Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.”
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“Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.”
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“How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.”
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“Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.”
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“There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.”
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“Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.”
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“A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.”
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“When hope is hungry, everything feeds it”
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“Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.”
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“Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.”
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“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”
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“When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.”
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“It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.”
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“Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.”
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“Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.”
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“Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.”
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“The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.”
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“A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.”
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