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Us Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
- The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
- The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
- The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
- Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
- What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.
- Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.
- Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
- Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions....
- Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
- Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
- Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.
- Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
- Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
- Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
- In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
- We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
- Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
- It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
- Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
- Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.
- We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.
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