Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 27

• Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

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  Events, Literature, Inevitable

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• General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

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  Running, Horse, Example

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• If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

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  Hate, Beggar, Ifs

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• If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

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  Exhibitionism, Literature, Modesty

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• Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

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  Powerful, Twenties, Literature

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• Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

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  Literature, Flow, Facts

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• Malice is always authentic and sincere.

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  Literature, Sincere, Malice

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• Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

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  Mind, Lasts, Judgment

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• My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

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  Mind

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• My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

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  Passion, Fire, Literature

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• Never try to leap from a standstill.

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  Trying, Literature, Leap

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• Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

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  Path, Morality, Decorum

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• Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

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  Want, Impulse

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• Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

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  Birthday, Fall, Funeral

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• Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

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  Literature, Young

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• People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

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  Art, Believe, People

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• Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

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  Running, Philosophy, Common Sense

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• Being enthusiastic settles nothing.

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  Enthusiasm, Settling, Enthusiastic

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• Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.

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  Believe, Enthusiasm

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• The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.

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  Movie, Stars, Sorrow

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• Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

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  Self, Form, Absorption

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• Health can be squandered, but not stored up.

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  Health

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• After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

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  Shrinking, Moments, Grotesque

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• I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.

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  People, Minutes, Conversation

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• The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

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  Cameras, Modesty, Youth

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