Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 22

• I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.

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  Literature, Prime, Knows

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• I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

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  Book, Literature, Make Me Happy

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• Laughing at our friends, we avenge the disappointment they have caused.

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  Disappointment, Funny Friend, Laughing

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• Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

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  Art, Self, Hypocrisy

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• I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating.

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  Cheating, Winning, Opponents

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• A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.

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  Love, Frogs, Enchanted

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• Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.

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  Determination, Nice, Hard Work

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• The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

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  Birthday, Journey, Hiking

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• The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

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  Suffering, Littles, Too Much

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• I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

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  Depression, Thinking, Form

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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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