| An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. |
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| There'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. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half-thought of it ourselves. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to weave. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| "What's for dinner?" is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6º of marriage! |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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