Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 3

• Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

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  Book, People, Conscious

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• Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

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  Depression, Courage, Bipolar

  "City Aphorisms: First Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

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• You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

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  Ideas, Want, Tact

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• I love money, but will money ever love me in return?

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  Money, Return, Love Of Money

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• Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

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  Political, Driving, Exile

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• Your need to talk does not create in me a need to listen.

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  Talking, Doe, Needs

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• With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

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  Age, Aging, Shameless

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• In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

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  Worry, Silence, Literature

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• The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.

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  Romance, Language, Fetish

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• The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

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  Hero, Winning, Play

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• Constant talkers are unheard.

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  Talkers, Constant, Unheard

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• Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

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  Want, Flattery, Insult

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• Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

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  Happiness, Romance, Companionship

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• Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

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  People, Consistency, Suffering

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• Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

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  Mistake, Literature, Originality

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• Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

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  Book, Lessons, Teach

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• Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

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  Being Alone, Blame, Living Alone

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• Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

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  Forgiveness, Forgive And Move On, What Is Forgiveness

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• To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.

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  Style, Skinny, Well Dressed

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• A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

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  Writing, Solitude, Reader

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• Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.

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  Sacrifice, Self, Demand

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• Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

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  Mirrors, Imagination, Desire

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• Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

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  Paraphrase, Quotations

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• The children of childish parents age quickly.

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  Children, Parent, Age

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• Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

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  Philosophical, Upset, Doe

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