Mignon McLaughlin citáty a výroky
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The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity and always its result.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“I am as I am" is another way of saying "I can do without your love.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Theater
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny?"”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“When children are bored, it reflects on us all.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis