Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.”

“Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding...”

“There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.”

“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”

“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”

“Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.”

“Its easy enough to get along with a loved and loving childat least till you try to get him to do something.”

“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”

“Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.”

“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”

“Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.”

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”

“We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.”

“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.”

“Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.”

“Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.”

“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.”

“Even cowards can endure hardship only the brave can endure suspense. ”

“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.”