Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 29

• Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

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  Desire, Want, Yearning

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• Rebuttals never alter desire.

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  Desire, Rebuttal

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• Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

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  Desire, Shame, Stills

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• The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

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  Fashion, Nature, Desire

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• I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

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  Desire, Moles, Beloved

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• Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

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  Desire, Satisfaction

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• My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

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  Self, Desire, Way

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• Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.

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  Self, Desire, Throwing

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• Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.

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  Running, Desire, Looks

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• Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

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  Desire, Gone, Habit

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• The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention.

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  Deserve More, Views, Attention

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• Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.

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  Unhappiness, Embrace, Treats

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• Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.

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  Children, Pain, Unhappiness

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• The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

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  Unhappy, Unhappiness, Prisoner

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• I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

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  Joy, Wish, Unhappiness

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• Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.

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  Firsts, Steps, Belief

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• Belief forages, moving from pasture to pasture.

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  Moving, Belief, Pastures

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• I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

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  Imagination, Permit, Figments

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• Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

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  Eye, Originality, Beholder

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• Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.

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  Next Steps, Unexpected, Originality

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• Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself.

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  Home, Scratches, I Can

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• The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

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  Museums, Style, Parody

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• The noble style immobilizes its subjects.

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  Style, Noble, Subjects

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• Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

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  Sacrifice, Style, Comfort

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• If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

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  Power, Hem, Influence

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