01c. 1948 ADA successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
02c. 1948 ADThere's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
03c. 1948 ADAn old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
04c. 1948 ADWhat you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
05c. 1948 ADFamily 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 / quote ↗
06c. 1948 ADCourage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
07c. 1948 ADIt’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
09c. 1948 ADMost of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
12c. 1948 ADThe ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
13c. 1948 ADA critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
14c. 1948 ADWe choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
15c. 1948 ADOnce you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
17c. 1948 ADThe death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
19c. 1948 ADA car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
20c. 1948 ADIf you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
21c. 1948 ADThe only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
23c. 1948 ADIt's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
24c. 1948 ADIt's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to our friendship that we are not.Mignon McLaughlin / quote ↗
