Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 43

• Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

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  People, Dull, Never Expect

  "City Aphorisms: Thirteenth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1994.

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• Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

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  Animal, Vegetables, Civilization

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• Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

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  Differences, Littles, Poet

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• Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

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  Back Roads, Scepticism, Credo

  "City Aphorisms: Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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• Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.

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  Generosity, Refrain, Know How

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• The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame

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  Flirting, Greatest Love, Shame

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• Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

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  White, Squares, Color

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• Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

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  Drunk, Solitude, Sober

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• Art can make chaos seductive.

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  Art, Seductive, Chaos

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• Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

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  Change, Crime, Accepted

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• Every work of art changes its predecessors.

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  Change, Art, Works Of Art

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• Politicians love change, but of details only.

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  Change, Details, Politician

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• Everything changes as it is written down.

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  Change, Things Change, Written

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• The familiar changes as we cling to it.

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  Change, Familiar

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• Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

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  Change, Mother, Father

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• Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

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  Blind Belief, Literature, Kind

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• The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals.

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  Sex, Media, Political

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• To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

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  Suicide, Wrong Person, Persons

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• Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.

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  Doe, His Love, Return

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• Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

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  People, Unemployment, Leisure

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• Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

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  Vacation, Pleasure, Prove

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• To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

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  Successful, Literature, Littles

  "City Aphorisms: Tenth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1992.

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• People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

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  People, Solitude, May

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• I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.

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  Motive

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• Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.

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  Trying, Gaps, Conversation

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