Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 13

• Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

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  Change, Feel Better, Literature

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

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  Simple, Challenges, Irony

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• The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

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  Sorrow, Deceit, Contradiction

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• A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

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  Seduction, Modesty, Modest

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• Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

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  Giving, Excess, Pleasure

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• Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

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  Time, Making Love, Ruins

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• I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.

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  Care, Fairness, Open Minded

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• Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

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  Flags, Emblems, Snail

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• I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

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  Sex, Matter, Literature

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• Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

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  Language

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• The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

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  Yawning

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