Affair Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

“People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.”

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Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

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We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

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The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

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We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

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One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

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So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

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There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

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In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

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Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

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The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

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My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.

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