Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 10

• The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.

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  Beginning Middle And End, Abandoned, Ends

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• Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

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  Stories, Literature, Insult

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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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• 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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• True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

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  Self, Doe, Circumstances

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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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• Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

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  Inspirational, Procrastination, Literature

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• If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

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  Phones, Play Hard, Literature

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• Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

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  Hate, Cat, Pet

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• If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

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  Funny, Dental Work, Ideas

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

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  Love, Lust, Sensations

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• If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

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  Role Models, Roles, Warning

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• I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

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  Too Much, Taste, Strain

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• Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

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  Teach, Knows

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• In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

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  World, Busy, Ends

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