Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 15

• Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

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  Travel, Memorable, Thinking

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• Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

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  Reality, Paper, Proof

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• Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

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  Retirement, Return, Youth

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• Many try to force the past to change.

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  Change, Past, Trying

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• Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

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  Weed, Flower, Differences

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• When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.

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  Paradox

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• No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

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  Kitchen, Literature, Chaos

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• Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

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  Truth, Half, Half Truth

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• Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

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  Faith, Boredom, Bores

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• Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

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  Change, Score, Sophistication

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• Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.

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  Jargon, Beard, Robes

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• Spontaneity comes after skill, not before.

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  Skills, Spontaneity

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• Keep your lies short and simple.

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  Lying, Simple

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• The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

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  Dream, Lying, Reality

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• Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

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  Originality, Eccentricity

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• More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.

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  Trouble

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• Our troubles keep us going.

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  Gone, Trouble

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• Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.

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  Trouble, Nobody Knows, Avoided

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• Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

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  Dream, Symbolism, Facade

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• Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.

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  Fear, Self, Self Control

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• Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

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  Funeral, Gone, Prove

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• As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same.

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  Children, Adults, Littles

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• I put second things first, and then worry about first things.

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  Worry, Priorities, Firsts

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• The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

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  Happiness, Ordinary, Routine

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• The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.

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  Honey, Bears, Hard

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