Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 5

• Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

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  Lying, Deceit, Consciousness

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• If you belong to the underclass, you are already guilty.

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  Guilty, Ifs

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• You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

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  Ideas, Want, Tact

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• Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

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  Thinking, Logic, Teach

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• Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

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  Men, Literature

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• Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason

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  Friendship, Funny Love, Sex

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• Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

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  Knowledge, Men, Unhappy

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• In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.

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  Labyrinth, Path, Monsters

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• The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

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  Sound, Littles, Infancy

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• The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

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  Letting Go, Wedding, Boredom

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• The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

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  Elderly, Dinner Guests, May

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• Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

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  Age, Eras, Worship

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• The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

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  Knives, May, Retreat

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• Discontented women dream of being rescued by Prince Charming. Discontented men dream of finding a horny blond in the back seat ofa taxi.

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  Dream, Men, Horny

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• Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

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  Spring, Cutting, Arrogance

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• The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

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  Fall, Doe, Patterns

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• The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.

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  Reality, Absurd, Fortresses

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• Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.

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  Genius, Talent, Deck

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• Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

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  Selfishness, Doe, Charity

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• I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

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  Book, Reading, Dieting

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• The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

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  Friendship, New Friends, Found

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• Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

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  People, May, Belief

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• I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

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  Literature, I Have Learned, Exceptional

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• I am forbidden sugar, fat, and alcohol. So hooray, I guess, for oatmeal, lemon juice, and chicken soup.

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  Oatmeal, Alcohol, Dieting

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• Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company.

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  Wind, Lust, Company

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