Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 10

• Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

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  Writing, Creativity, Acting

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• To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

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  Forgiving, Dignity, Forget

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• Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

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  Running, Dancing, Romance

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• Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

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  Art, Sex, Taken

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• Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

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  Disappointment, Literature, Cynicism

  "City Aphorisms". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

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• Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

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  Blood, Greedy, Thirsty

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• Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

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  Hope, Despair, Facts

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• Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

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  Character, Emergencies, Faults

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• The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.

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  Aphorism, Pins, Let Me

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• Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

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  Kings, Equality, Giving

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• Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

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  Indifference, Ideology, Hostility

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• Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.

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  Fortune Cookie, Cookies, Warning

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• Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

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  Comedy, Surface, Profundity

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• Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.

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  Lying, Lightning, May

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• Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

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  Innovation, Tradition, Stealing

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• Successful innovations become conventions.

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  Successful, Innovation, Conventions

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• Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

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  Want, Privilege, Victimization

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• Many attempt to harvest what was never planted.

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  Harvest

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• Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

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  Order, Giving, Comfort

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• The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

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  Mind, Demand, Facts

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• Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

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  Modern, Paint, Depiction

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• The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

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  Lonely, Thoughtful, Feeling Alone

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• Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

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  Art, Innovation, Imitation

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• Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

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  Love, Lust, Sensations

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• Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

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  Inspirational, Procrastination, Literature

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