Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

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  Change, Feel Better, Literature

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• Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

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  Self, Giving, Realization

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• Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

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  True Or False, Aphorism, Flats

  "City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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• Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

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  Tails, Aphorism, Kink

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• Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

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  Wise, Aphorism, Considering

  "City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1993.

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• If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.

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  Time, Want, Waste

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• Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.

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  Food, Promise, Eating

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• As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

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  Missing, Purpose, Reviews

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• A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.

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  Boredom, Cures

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• One eventually has enough even of oneself.

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  Boredom, Enough, Oneself

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• Living too long exacts a painful price.

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  Long, Age, Painful

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• Dieting is our last tie with asceticism.

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  Ties, Dieting, Asceticism

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• People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

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  People, Age, Twenties

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• The Simple Life is not a simple life.

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  Life, Simple, Simplicity

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• Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

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  Illusion, Disillusionment, Disillusion

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• Everyone fears and courts his own demon.

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  Fear, Destiny, Demon

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• The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

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  Fitness, Bathroom, Scales

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• Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.

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  Secret, Pleasure, Masturbation

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• Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you.

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  Over You, Acknowledge, Limitation

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• Beggars market their incapacity.

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  Incapacity, Begging, Beggar

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• I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly.

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  Curiosity, Hundred

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• Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

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  Greed, Lust, Literature

  "City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1991.

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