Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 45

• The lover as baby is a less troubling idea than the baby as lover.

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  Baby, Ideas, Lovers

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• Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.

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  Jargon, Language

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• I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.

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  Waiting, Temptation, Impatient

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• Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.

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  Temptation, Trying, Stop Trying

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• I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

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  Profession, I Can

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• Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

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  Haste, Leisure, Repent

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• Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.

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  Passion, Secret Love, Culture

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• Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.

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  Nature, Deviance, Way

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• In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

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  Museums, Quotation Marks, Mark

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• The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

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  Arrogance, Needs, Privilege

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• My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt.

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  Doubt, Trails, Protest

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• Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

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  Stories, Conventions, Conventionality

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• Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.

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  Wall, Water, Alive

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• A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.

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  Glasses, Steel, Skyscraper

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• Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.

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  Dream, Optimism, Mobility

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• Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.

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  Trying, Juan, Skeptical

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• Promiscuity turns sex into a sport, like arm-wrestling.

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  Sports, Sex, Wrestling

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• It's no good being exclusive if nobody wants in.

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  Clubs, Want, Exclusive

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• Elegance thrives on exclusion.

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  Exclusion, Elegance, Thrive

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• Tears are great peace-makers.

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  Tears, Cry, Makers

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• Shaw writes as if it were always midday.

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  Writing, Ifs

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• The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

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  Magic, Wish, Routine

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• Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

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  Time, Boredom, Usual

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• A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.

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  Cities, Suburbs

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• Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can.

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