| We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Age is a slowing down of everything except fear. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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