Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 47

• Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

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  Death, Promise, Oblivion

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• Only death rescues us from dying.

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  Death, Dying, Rescue

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• Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

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  Friends, Death, Party

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• Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.

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  Death, Ifs, Around The Corner

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• Death is always there, just beneath the surface.

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  Death, Beneath The Surface, Surface

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• The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

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  Success, Failure, Wretchedness

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• Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.

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  Reality, Way, Sometimes

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• The realism of failure, the romance of success.

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  Reality, Romance, Realism

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• Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

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  Reality, Details, Guarantees

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• The real reality is always just around the corner.

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  Real, Corners, Around The Corner

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• Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

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  Reality, Garden, White

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• The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

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  Real, Facts, Reality

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• In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.

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  Winning, Reality, Stories

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• I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

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  Book, Way, Mines

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• Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

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  Book, Meaningless

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• To remain mysterious, say little and do nothing.

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  Littles, Mysterious, Mystery

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• Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.

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  Cows, Mystery, Ambiguous

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• The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.

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  Mystery, Controversy

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• Stutters and snorts are meaningful but not usually referential.

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  Meaningful

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• Your words and my words are the same, but not our meaning.

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• Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.

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  Love, Thinking, Important

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• Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.

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  Love, Sorrow, Sorrow Love

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• When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.

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  Love, Money, Nice

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• All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

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  Love, Art, History And Art

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• When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.

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  Love, Pedestal, Holes

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