American - Journalist | June 6, 1913 - December 20, 1983
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
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Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
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Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
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What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
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Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
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Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
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If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
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Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
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Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
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