Mignon McLaughlin
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Mignon McLaughlin was an American
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. She wrote two volumes entitled Neurotic's Notebook. She is known for a number of quotes, among them:
  • "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
  • "Anything you lose automatically doubles in value."
  • "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."


Mignon McLaughlin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in New York City, where her mother, Joyce Neuhaus, was a prominent lawyer.
Quotations

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

The Second Neurotic's Notebook, Bobbs-Merrill, New York, NY, 1966, p. 11.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966)

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966)

 
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