Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 23

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

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  Depression, Thinking, Form

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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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• Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.

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  Ambition, Imagination, Way

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• Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

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  Ambition, Vanity, Gullibility

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• When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

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  Heart, Desire, Trying

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• Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

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  May, Belief, Skepticism

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• Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.

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  Power, Law, Issues

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• Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

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  God, Power, Virtue

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• Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

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  Children, Optimism, Century

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• If the current is right, one can drift to success.

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  Success, Currents, Ifs

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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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• Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

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  Civilization, Barbarism, Discontent

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