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Up Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
- People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.
- Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
- How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.
- A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.
- Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.
- Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.
- Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.
- 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…
- Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold