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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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“Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.”
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“Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.”
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“Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.”
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“Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.”
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“We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.”
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“Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.”
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“We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.”
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“If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.”
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“Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.”
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“Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.”
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“Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.”
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“Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.”
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“The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.”
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“A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.”
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“God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.”
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“When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.”
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“A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.”
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“As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.”
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“The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.”
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“Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.”
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“At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.”
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“The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.”
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“Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.”
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“Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.”
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“The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.”
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“A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.”
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“The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.”
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“Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.”
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“Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.”
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“Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.”
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“Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.”
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“Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.”
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“The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.”
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“Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.”
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“Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.”
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“Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.”
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“There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.”
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“We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.”
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“The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.”
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“When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.”
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“We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.”
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“My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.”
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“In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.”
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“It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.”
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“With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.”
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“Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.”
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“Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.”
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“When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.”
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“No woman wants to see herself too clearly.”
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“Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.”
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