Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 47

• 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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• Most people find just being themselves not enough of a show.

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  People, Just Being, Enough

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• Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.

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  Real, Understanding, Imaginary

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• Only death goes deeper than sex.

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  Sex, Deeper

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• Music dissolves the straight and narrow.

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• Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

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  Advice, Helpful, Loan

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• In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

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  Country, Art, Cousin

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• My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

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  Wisdom, Mentor, Age

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• The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.

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  Wisdom, Support, Trying

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• I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

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  Wisdom, Riddle, Pun

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• Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Simplify

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• At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

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  Giving, Aging, Vistas

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