Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 17

• After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

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  Mean, Acceptance, Silence

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• 'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

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  Ghetto, Roots, Faithful

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• For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

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  Immaturity, Literature, Defects

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• Reading civilized the inner life.

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  Reading, Civilized, Inner Life

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• Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.

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  Strong, Hopeful, Able

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• King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

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  Love, Kings, Opera

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• I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.

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  Work, Pleasure

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• Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

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  Work, Goodness, Easier

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• Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.

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  Work, Firsts, Rescue

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• Wit puts politicians at risk.

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  Risk, Politics, Politician

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• The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

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  Inspirational, Blind, Muse

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• Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

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  Expectations, Desire, Action

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• Do as you like--if you know what it is.

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  Action, Knows, Ifs

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• Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.

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  Congratulations, Self, Blame

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• To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

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  God, Humanity, Forget

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• God improvises. Man systematizes.

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  God, Men, Humanity

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• Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.

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  Hope, Despair, Cry

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• The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

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  Despair, Found, Modernism

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• Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

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  Money, Fame, Conquest

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• The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

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  Money, Perfect, Pleasure

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• The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?

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  Eggs, Perfection, Want

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• Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.

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  Travel, Home, Thinking

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• Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

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  Poverty, Tin, World

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• No use saying necessity is making a mistake.

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  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Use

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• God has replaced sex as the unmentionable.

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  God, Sex, Replaced

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