Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 46

• Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.

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  Baby, Lunch, Laundry

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• The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

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  Truth, Landscape Painting, Horizon

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• Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.

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  Sublime, Telescopes, Binoculars

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• Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

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  Art, Totems, Lost

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• Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

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  Memorial, Enlightenment, Monument

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• A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

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  Museums, History, Giving

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• Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

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  Powerful, Merit, Undefined

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• Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.

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  Change, Regret, Celebrate

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• Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.

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  Littles, Obvious, Scholarship

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• Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

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  Wonder, Deconstruction, Critics

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• Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

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  Waiting, Deconstruction, Betray

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• Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee.

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  Sex, Someday, Form

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• Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

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  Loyalty, Likes, Discourse

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• Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

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  Moving, Doe, Literature

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• The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

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  Writing, Interesting, Sublime

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• Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

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  Faithful, Fickle, Literature

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• Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

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  Looks, Literature, Illness

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• Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

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  Affair, Love Affair, Moodiness

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• Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

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  Mother, Hatred, Surprise

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• Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

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  Book, Reading, Past

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• The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

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  Regret, Believe, Past

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• The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

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  Literature, Tone, Moral

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• An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

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  Dialect, Literature, Academic

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• Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

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  Ordinary, Hints, Kind

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• Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

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  Literature, Reputation, Forgotten

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