Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 34

• The party out of office becomes the articulate one.

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  Party, Power, Office

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• Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

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  Nature, Gun, Power

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• The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.

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  Power, People, Waiting

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• My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

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  Strength, Weakness, Charitable

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• Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

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  Disappointment, Expectations, Prove

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• We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.

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  Disappointment

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• I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.

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  Disappointment, Remember, Feels

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• Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

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  Loss, Progress, May

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• My secrets are petty but humiliating.

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  Secret, Humiliating, Petty

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• In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.

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  New York, Struggle, Mean

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• New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.

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  Art, Sex, New York

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• New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

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  New York, Way, Unkind

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• Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

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  New York, Los Angeles, Charm

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• In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

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  New York, Laziness, Collapse

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• I create my social existence by earning and spending.

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  Self, Earning, Social

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• Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

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  Self, People, Satisfaction

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• Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

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  Dwarves, Self, What If

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• Self-analysis always cheats.

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  Self, Analysis, Cheat

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• I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

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  Betrayal, Self, Self Betrayal

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• When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.

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  Hope, Home, Self

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• My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.

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  Self, Selfishness, Self Absorption

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• Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

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  Smile, Pride, Arrogance

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• Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.

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  Serious, Affair, Quarrels

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• Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.

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  Real, Matter, Facts

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• Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

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  Children, Class, Gentleman

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