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Mignon McLaughlin

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Mignon McLaughlin was an American writer and journalist, born in Baltimore on June 6, 1913.

McLaughlin was educated at Smith College and worked in the English language. She died on December 20, 1983, in Coral Gables. Her professional life encompassed both writing and journalism, two fields that together defined her engagement with American literary and public discourse during the twentieth century.

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Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn’t.
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Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn’t.
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You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won’t take it.
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You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won’t take it.
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The neurotic’s strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
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The neurotic’s strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
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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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Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what’s missing.
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If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream.
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If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream.
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It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else’s.
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It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else’s.
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I’m afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can’t stop competing; otherwise I’m fine.
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I’m afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can’t stop competing; otherwise I’m fine.
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I wish I’d said it first, and I don’t even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.
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I wish I’d said it first, and I don’t even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.
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How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he’s going to wind up wanting hasn’t even been born.
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How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he’s going to wind up wanting hasn’t even been born.
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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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No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.
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