Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 37

• I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.

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  Practice, Principles, Gullible

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• Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

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  Beloved, Knows

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• Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

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  Past, Ironic, Narrative

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• The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

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  Travel, Monotonous Life, Tourism

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• Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

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  Pity, Cruelty, Fear Not

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• Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

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  Literature, Succeed, Failing

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• Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

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  Simple, People, Justice

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• Folly always knows the answer.

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  Answers, Literature, Folly

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• Never ask a bore a question.

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  Bores, Asks

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• Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

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  Mind, Literature, Body

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• While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

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  Reading

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• When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

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  Sick, Desire, Excess

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• Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

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  Mirrors, Soul, Faces

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• Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

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  Opportunity, Names, Answers

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• Hatred observes with more care than love does.

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  Hatred, Doe, Literature

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• City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

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  Country, Cities, People

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• I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

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  I Am What I Am, Not Sure, Knows

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• Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

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  Conscious, Ends, Tidying Up

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• Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

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  Giving, Vices, Literature

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• The only peace is being out of earshot.

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  Literature

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• While there's life, there's fear.

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  Literature

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• Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

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  Ill Will, Sloth, Literature

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• Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

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  Poetry, Professors, Daring

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• Title deeds generally outlast poems.

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  Poetry, Deeds, Titles

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• When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

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  Poetry, Machines, Bees

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