Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 30

• Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

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  Giving, Doubt, Age

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• A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.

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  Occupation, Wells, Paid

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• The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.

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  Soul, Appetite, Stills

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• Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

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  Opportunity, Self, Criticism

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• Malevolence is shameful but satisfying.

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  Evil, Malevolence, Shameful

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• The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right.

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  Smile, Evil, May

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• I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

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  Dream, Heart, Desire

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• As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

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  Desire, World, Empty

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• 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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