Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 3

• Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

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  Lying, Deceit, Consciousness

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• The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

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  Sound, Littles, Infancy

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• Cure for an obsession: get another one.

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  Life, Obsession, Cures

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• Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.

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  Trying, Causes, Trembling

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• The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

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  Friendship, New Friends, Found

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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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• To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.

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  Waiting, Laziness, Circumstances

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• Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.

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  Secret, Live By, Dies

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• I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.

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  Eating, Hungry

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• An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

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  Lying, Reason, No Reason

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• Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

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  Children, Parent, Literature

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• Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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  Simple, Challenges, Irony

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• Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.

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  Analysis, Evidence

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• Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

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  Practice, Come Up, Theory

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• Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

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  Lonely, Cat, Pet

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• Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?

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  Stars, Astrology

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• Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.

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  Mind, Logic, Punning

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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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• Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

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  Jealousy, Self, Abandonment

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• Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

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  Stupidity, Facts, Facts Of Life

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

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  Vanity, Spiteful, Hungry

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• Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.

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  Smile, Sweet, Judgment

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• After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

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  Truth, Vanity, May

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• Truth is a necessary phantom.

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  Truth, Phantoms, Truth Is

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• Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.

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  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

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