Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 27

• Curiosity engenders both science and scandal.

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  Curiosity, Scandal

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• To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.

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  Smile, Heart, Winning

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• Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

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  Strong, Weakness, Feels

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• Helplessness is a mighty power.

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  Power, Weakness, Helplessness

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• I deplore my shortcomings, but plan to keep them.

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  Weakness, Plans, Shortcomings

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• Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.

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  Weakness, Leisure

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• Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.

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  Lying, Promise, Sufficient

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• Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.

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  Burden, Resent

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• The sun cares nothing for illumination.

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  Illumination, Care, Sun

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• The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

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  Drama, Tragedy, Littles

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• Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

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  Addiction, Pleasure, Vengeful

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• A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.

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  Successful, Littles, Restaurants

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• A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.

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  Flower, Doe, Evoke

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• Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.

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  Self, Nails, Victim

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• Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

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  Literature

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• Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

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  Book, Character, Literature

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• Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

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  Common Sense, Literature, Common

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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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