Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 3

• Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

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  Imagination, Literature

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• Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it.

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  Excited, Moderation, All Things

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• Cure for an obsession: get another one.

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  Life, Obsession, Cures

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• Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

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  Struggle, Forget, Existence

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• Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.

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  Love, Lust, Love Lust

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• Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

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  Moving, Cooking, Furniture

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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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• Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

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  Sincerity, Difficult

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• At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

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  Literature, Littles, Thirty

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• What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

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  Lying, Appearance, Behinds

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• Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.

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  Waiting, Oblivion, Threatening

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• Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.

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  Smile, Sweet, Judgment

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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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• Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

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  Inspirational, Law, Demand

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• The desire to be significant casts a pall.

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  Desire, Significant, Significance

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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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• Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.

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  Wind, Play, Arrogance

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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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• The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner.

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  Kings, Power, Lions

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• Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

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  Jealousy, Self, Abandonment

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• Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.

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  Proof, Conversation, Shows

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• I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

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  I Love You, Literature, Pandora's Box

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• Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.

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  Letting Go, Hurt, Moving Forward

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• Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

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  Vanity, Spiteful, Hungry

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• We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

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  Literature, Baffled, Insult

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