McLaughlin, Mignon -- The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 2 (1966)

Dave — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 22:27:12 +0000

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist and author
The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 2 (1966)

James, P. D. -- Time To Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography, “Diary 1997” (1999)

Dave — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:36:51 +0000

Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.

P. D. James (1920–2014) British mystery writer [Phyllis Dorothy James White]
Time To Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography, “Diary 1997” (1999)

WIST Quotations

McLaughlin, Mignon -- The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 2 (1966)

James, P. D. -- Time To Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography, “Diary 1997” (1999)