Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 42

• Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

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  Marriage, Way, Argument

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• Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

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  Boredom, Strive, Strife

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• Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!

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  Running, Boredom, Ennui

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• A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

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  Boredom, Contradiction

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• The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

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  Old Things, Routine, Champagne

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• Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

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  Time, Comfort, Routine

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• The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.

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  Art, Pedants, Nudity

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• Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

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  Lying, Destiny, Diplomats

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• You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?

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  Looks, Significant, Significance

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• Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself.

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  Clouds, Essence, Flavor

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• I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges.

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  Rights, Privilege, Enjoy

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• Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

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  Freedom, Lateness, Late

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• Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

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  Ideas, Attractive, Thrift

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• F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.

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  Scott Fitzgerald, Talent, Prolonging

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• To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

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  Practice, Broken, Promise

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• Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.

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  Children, Joy, Parent

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• Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

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  Events, Metaphor, Advantage

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• Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

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  Denial, Abstinence, Appetite

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• Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.

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  Marriage, Principles, Cooperation

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• We understand through resemblance.

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  Resemblance

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• I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.

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  Want, Ordinary, Understood

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• Complainers detest each other.

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  Complainers, Detest

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• Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

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  Insecurity, Mind, States

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• Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.

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  Disadvantages

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• The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.

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  Proof, Signs Of Life, Suburbs

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