Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 5

• Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.

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  Secret, Live By, Dies

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• Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

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  Disappointment, Literature, Cynicism

  "City Aphorisms". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

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• The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

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  Puritan, Pleasure, Duty

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• Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

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  Order, Giving, Comfort

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• Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

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  Law, Political, Competition

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• The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

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  Mind, Demand, Facts

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• Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.

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  Courage, Self, Doubt

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• An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

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  Lying, Reason, No Reason

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• Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

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  Time, Effort, Busy

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• Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.

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  Fortune Cookie, Cookies, Warning

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• Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

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  Enemy, Literature, Sometimes

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• Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

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  Photography, Misrepresentation, Know How

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• We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.

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  Action, Reflexes, Disguise

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• Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

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  Hope, Despair, Facts

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• Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

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  Character, Emergencies, Faults

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• Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

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  Indifference, Ideology, Hostility

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• Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.

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  Proof, Conversation, Shows

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• Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

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  Comedy, Surface, Profundity

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• Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?

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  Stars, Astrology

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• Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

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  Change, Score, Sophistication

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• If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.

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  Rude, Gone, Rudeness

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• Supermarkets depict abundance; boutiques exclusiveness; roadside stands authenticity.

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  Shopping, Authenticity, Abundance

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• An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.

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  Tired, Talking, Events

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• Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

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  Children, Parent, Literature

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• Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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  Simple, Challenges, Irony

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