Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 12

• There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

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  Reading, Writing, Thinking

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• Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

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  Nice, Hobbies, Literature

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• Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

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  People, Magic, Promise

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• To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

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  Style, Literary Style

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• Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

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  Literature, Trouble, Fulfillment

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• Young men preen. Old men scheme.

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  Men, Schemes, Young

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

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  World, Busy, Ends

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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  Simple, Challenges, Irony

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

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  Garden, Mind, Delight

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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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