Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 26

• The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.

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  Past, Advice, Ignorant

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• Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.

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  Faith, Judgment, Cynicism

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• If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

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  Knowledge, Labels, World

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• Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

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  Home, Reality, Comfort

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• Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?

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  Love, Writing, Thinking

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• Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

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  Truth, Power, Errors

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• A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.

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  Funny, Laughing, Would Be

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• I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

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  Ponds, Frogs, Realistic

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• Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

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  Literature, Garbage, Transforming

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• Listening to people keeps them entertained.

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  People, Listening, Literature

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• The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.

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  Overcoming, Pleasure, Limitation

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• Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Gone

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• In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

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  Literature, Fees, Psychoanalysis

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• I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.

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  Special, Faults, Grudge

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• In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.

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  Mean, Cities, Wilderness

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• A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.

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  Sex, Dirty, Mind

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• The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

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  Self, Gone, Possibility

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• The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

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  Ambition, Greatness, Soul

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• The man in the street is always a stranger.

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  Men, Stranger, Streets

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• Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

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  Mother, Listening, Literature

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• A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

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  Real, Ideas, Literature

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• Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

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  Doe, Affection, Reproach

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• Art seduces, but does not exploit.

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  Art, Doe, Seducing

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• Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

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  Delight, Literature, Scolding

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• Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

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  Literature, Eternal Life, Frightening

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