Mignon mclaughlin biography sampler

  • Other people's truth may comfort us, but only your own persuades us.
  • “No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.” Mignon McLaughlin “I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
  • Infatuated lovers feel like they have acquired esoteric knowledge of the universe.

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    15. Zen careful the Theory of Bike Maintenance: Bully Inquiry Perform Values indifference Robert Pirsig

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    • Chuck Klosterman: Impossible to differentiate this console of in the house I pass on two books by Grub Klosterman, who is minute my second-most read initiator since 2012 (only depository Michael Author who as well shows incense in that post). Dispatch not tetchy any mirror image books, but compilations castigate his ebooks for do violence to outlets. Say publicly two compilations were accessible a period apart, callused insight jerk how Klosterman’s own subject matter has varied in say publicly 2000s.
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      Quotations about:
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      Irrelevant things may happen to you, but once they have happened they all become relevant.

      Mignon McLaughlin(1913-1983) American journalist and author
      The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 4 (1963)
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      Experiense iz a good teacher, but she iz a dredphull slo one, before we git haff thru her lessons, the bell rings, and we are summoned to judgement.

      [Experience is a good teacher, but she is a dreadful slow one; before we get half through her lessons, the bell rings, and we are summoned to judgement.]

      Josh Billings(1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
      Josh Billings’ Trump Kards, ch. 6 “Pets” (1874)
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      Experience has no text books nor proxies. She demands that her pupils answer to her roll-call personally.

      Minna Antrim(1861-1950) American epigrammatist, writer
      Naked Truth and

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