Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 4

• Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

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  Work, Melancholy, Pleasure

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• Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.

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  Smile, Sweet, Judgment

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

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  Waiting, Laziness, Circumstances

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• I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

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  I Love You, Literature, Pandora's Box

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• Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.

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  Love, Hate, Facts

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• Do not wait for a reason to be happy.

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  Happiness, Waiting, Reason

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• Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

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  Sincerity, Difficult

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• Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.

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  Feelings, My Love For You, Body

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• Cure for an obsession: get another one.

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  Life, Obsession, Cures

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• Silence kills scandal.

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  Silence, Scandal

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• Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

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  Reading, Giving, Places To Go

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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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• Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.

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  Waiting, Oblivion, Threatening

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• A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.

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  Smile, Seductive, Dresses

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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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• Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.

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  Mind, Logic, Punning

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• The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

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  Elderly, Dinner Guests, May

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• Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

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  Photography, Misrepresentation, Know How

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• At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

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  Literature, Littles, Thirty

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• A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.

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  Life, Needs, Goldfish

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• I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.

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  Eating, Hungry

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• Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

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  Imagination, Literature

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• Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

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  Time, Effort, Busy

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• You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

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  Love, Romantic, Wedding

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• One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

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  Beauty, Children, Said

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