Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 40

• Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

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  Mortality, Acquittal, Series

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• The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

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  New York, Wall, Want

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• The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.

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  Romantic, Shadow, Enlightenment

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• Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.

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  Wit, Whole

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• True wit has a grave intention.

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  Intention, Graves, Wit

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• In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.

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  Witty, Winning, Style

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• Wit: a whim followed by a wham.

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  Whim, Wit

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• City wits, country humorists.

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  Funny, Country, Cities

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• If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

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  Wit, Folly, Ifs

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• Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.

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  Sometimes, Enough, Yeah

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• Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

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  Like Love, Destruction, Ecstatic

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• God makes the covenant, and observes it as He pleases.

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  God, Covenant, Please

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• I resist change even as I call for it.

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  Change

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• People invent gods to explain their suffering.

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  God, People, Suffering

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• The young are amazed when they suffer.

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  Suffering, Youth, Young

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• Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.

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  Joy, Suffering, Way

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• Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.

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  Memories, Eye, Past

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• Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.

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  Memories, Events, Currents

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• Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.

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  Fear, Shots, Adversaries

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• Fear regulates. Appetite impels.

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  Fear, Appetite

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• If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?

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  Fear, Asking Why, Guilt

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• Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.

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  Fear, Work, Law

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• After desolation, grief brings back our humanity.

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  Grief, Humanity, Desolation

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• Like love, grief fades in and out.

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  Grief, Like Love, Fades

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• Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.

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  Fate, Crowds, Likes

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