Mignon McLaughlin citáty

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„Život, ktorý žijeme, mi pripomína parazita v črevách. Žijeme v tme a snažíme sa uzrieť svetlo tak, že vyjdeme von ústami. Ale akokoľvek sa snažíme, vždy nás niečím spláchnu a nakoniec vyjdeme von z opačnej strany. Ale svetlo už nevidíme.“

„Pre našich priateľov je dôležité, aby verili, že sme k nim bezvýhradne úprimní, a pre priateľstvo je dôležité, aby sme úprimnými neboli.“

“There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure.”

“Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.”

“The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.”

“Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.”

“Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.”

“An attractive woman likes feminine company until she's twenty, and after she's twenty-five.”

“After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!”

“If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.”

“Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.”

“At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.”

“Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.”

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

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”

“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.”

“If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.”

“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”

“The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.”

“Life's most painful condition: to be almost a celebrity.”

“Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.”

“Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.”

“I often pray, though I’m not really sure Anyone’s listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He’s literary.”

“I have seen messed-up people of forty who still seemed salvageable, and children of six or seven who almost surely were not.”

“One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.”

“In every group of intimidated people, each thinks "I will rebel," but each waits for the others.”

“Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those changes that would make all the difference.”

“If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.”

“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. People might not return it; or worse, they might.”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.”