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Mignon McLaughlin: top 100 quotes
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Hope (n.) is hungry, for everything feeds it.
Hope (n.) , when hungry, is fed by everything.
Hope (n.) is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
Attractiveness (n.) is a matter steeped in vanity. In truth, men prefer reasonably attractive women but go after the sensational ones to impress other men.
Denial (n.) is rarely able to fool others, but it still serves a purpose, it fools us.
An Acquaintance (n.) is somebody you nod to if he nods first.
Love (n.) is contrasted with marriage in that love requires a willingness to die whereas marriage requires a willingness to live.
Love (n.) is specific. No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Love (n.) is like money in that it is offered most freely to those in least need of it.
Love (n.) is distinguished from liking in that while we choose those we like, with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
Love (n.) is when one is thinking about their lover even when they are not thinking about their lover.
Love (n.) is always particular. The hardest lesson that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
Love (n.) is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
Love (n.) is always probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
Love (n.) is an arithmetic in which one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Life (n.) is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.
Marriage (n.) is distinguished from love in that marriage requires a willingness to live whereas love requires a willingness to die.
Marriage (n.) is falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Marriage (n.) is the agreeable 98.6 degrees after the chills and fevers of love.
Marriage (n.) is a relationship where, after the chills and fever of love, its 98.6 degrees is appreciated.
Marriage (n.) is not all bad when it is a marriage of convenience, for we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
Marriage (n.) is often simply a working partnership between businessmen and housekeepers.
Marriage (n.) is the refuge of the very lonely, and the very self-sufficient.
Truth (n.) is such that while other people's truth may comfort us, only our own persuades us.
Happiness (n.) is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
God (n.) is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.