Mignon McLaughlin: Trending quotes (page 4)

“The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“Being Irish is, no matter how real, a pose.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

Feeling , Thinking , Country

“Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn’t either.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Theater

Life

“Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Love , Women

“The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

Perfection

“Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Past

“We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Passion

“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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Democracy

“A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“If he suddenly falls in love with someone else, a husband may not start wanting a divorce; but if he suddenly makes a lot of money, he usually will.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Love , Money

“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men , Age

“Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Family , Understanding

“If everyone gave a tenth of his worldly goods to the person he most admired, the rich would just get richer.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Personality

“There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Learning