Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 11

• Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

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  Views, Turkeys, History

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• The best propaganda omits rather than invents

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  Political, Language, Propaganda

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• As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

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  Success, Secret, Cockroaches

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• Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

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  Apathy, Indifference, Excellent

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• Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

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  Elude Us, Literature, Elude

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• Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

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  Literature, About Yourself

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• When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.

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  Lying, Eye, Looks

  "City Aphorisms: Ninth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1992.

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• Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

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  Lyrical, Ugliness

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• To make a thought my own, I must think it often.

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  Thinking, Thoughtful, My Own

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• The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

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  Age, Vacancy, Youth

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• Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

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  Happiness, Goal, Chimera

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• Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

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  Memories, History, Creative

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• Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.

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  Truth, Want, Bathroom

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• Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!

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  Truth, Rain

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• Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

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  Life, Morning, Awakening

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• Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

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  Life, Blame, Praise

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• Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.

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  Garden, Mind, Delight

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• Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

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  Wish, Would Be, Found

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• If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

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  Reading, Found, Ifs

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• Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

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  Sports, Reading, Athlete

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• The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.

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  Knowledge, Doubt, More Knowledge

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• Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

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  Would Be, Littles, Forgetfulness

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• Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.

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  Firsts, Sin, Slips

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• Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

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  Loneliness, Views, Housekeeping

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• Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.

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  Voice, Criticism, Invited

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