Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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About Mignon McLaughlin

Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 – December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author.

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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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

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Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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

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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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You know that there's a whole underground system that you call "dreams," having nothing better to call them, and that this system is not like roads or tunnels but more like a live body network, all coiling and stretching, unpredictable but finally familiar — where you are now, where you've always been.

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In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness and enlarge his vision not only of himself, but also of the universe in which he lives.

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To strengthen the mind you must harden the muscles.

—Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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I had to face the facts; I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. Especially their shape.

—Charlotte Bingham

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The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth; little to do with control, and much to do with acceptance; little to do with division and analysis, and much to do with union.

—Marilyn Sewell

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