Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 21

• Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.

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  Baby, Self, Resentment

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• A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.

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  Sympathy, Sorry, Looks

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• My struggles with myself seldom reach aerobic level.

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  Struggle, Levels, My Struggle

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• The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.

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  Depression, Fall, Exhausted

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• When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

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  Trust, Understanding, Would Be

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• I trust you because I need you.

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  Trust, Needs, Need You

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• Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them.

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  Issues, Cynicism

  "City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1989.

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• Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

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  Country, Power, Cities

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• My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

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  Father, Matriarchy, Patriarch

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• Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

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  Art, Fun, Lying

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• Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.

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  Retirement, Days Off, Looks

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• Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

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  Struggle, Taste, Enjoyment

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• Money: power at its most liquid.

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  Literature, Money Power, Liquid

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• Even alone we go on justifying ourselves.

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  Goes On

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• Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

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  Truth, Lying, Telling The Truth

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• The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

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  Truth, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Truth usually stammers at first.

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  Truth, Firsts

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• We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

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  Truth, Sometimes

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• Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.

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  Life, Waste, Mortality

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• What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

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  Reading, Mind, Body

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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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