Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Mignon McLaughlin

Mignon McLaughlin

American writer, editor

Lived from: 1913 - 1983

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 6 june 1913 Died: 20 december 1983

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  • 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.
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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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  • No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
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  • No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
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  • Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
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  • Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
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  • The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
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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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  • The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
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  • The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
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  • The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
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  • Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.
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  • There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
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  • We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us manage to remain greedy.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
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  • We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
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  • What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
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  • When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
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  • Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
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