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Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Mignon McLaughlin

Being

Children

Parents

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

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.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Mignon McLaughlin

God

Suffering

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Want

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Mignon McLaughlin

Generosity

Reputation

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Mignon McLaughlin

Generosity

Reputation

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

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Mignon McLaughlin

Love

First

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Mignon McLaughlin

Being

Sin

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Mignon McLaughlin

Strength

Weakness

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Society

Living