Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 35

• The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.

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  Cat, Thinking, Bankers

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• The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.

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  Winning, Nihilism, Negative

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• The closeups of pornography make human genitals look like undiscovered prehistoric animals.

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  Animal, Looks, Pornography

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• Pornography supplies the only really safe sex.

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  Sex, Safe, Pornography

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• Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.

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  Tea, Electric, Pornography

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• Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.

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  Break A Leg, Broken, Inspire

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• Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.

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  Self, Hatred, Sometimes

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• Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

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  Procrastination, Balance, Impatience

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• Intuition is often mistaken, but not altogether.

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  Intuition, Mistaken

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• First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

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  Literary Theory, Literature, Firsts

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• My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

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  Parent, Sorrow, Solace

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• Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

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  Believe, Literature, Lasts

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• Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

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  Ideas, Literature, World

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• Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

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  Running, Reputation, Affair

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• Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

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  Birthday, Passion, Age Love

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• Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

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  Ideas, Literature, May

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• The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

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  Horse, Youth, Remember

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• The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

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  Men, Talking, Feelings

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• The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

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  Sage, Literature, Enlightened

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• Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

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  Thinking, Specialists, Universe

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• Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

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  New York, Paris, Drawing

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• Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

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  Literature

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• We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

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  Faults, Virtue, Tied

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• silence is the most intolerable of answers.

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  Silence, Answers, Silence Is

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• When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.

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  Naps, Rejection, Figures

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