Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 7

• Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.

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  Sacrifice, Self, Demand

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• Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.

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  Alzheimer's, Progress, Aids

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• Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

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  Smile, Promise, Desire

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• All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

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  Power, Imagination, Power Of Imagination

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• Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.

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  Doctrine, Theory

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• I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

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  Sex, Matter, Literature

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• The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

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  Laughter, Literature, Sometimes

  "City Aphorisms: Sixth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1989.

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• Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

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  Language

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• The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

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  Yawning

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• Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

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  Men, Feelings, Nervous

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• Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.

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  Sacrifice, Ugly, Sacred

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• The powerless worship Luck and Fate.

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  Fate, Luck, Worship

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• Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.

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  Costumes, Lovers, Nudity

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• To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

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  Grieving, Gains, Reputation

  "City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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• Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.

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  Remember, Forget

  "City Aphorisms: Third Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1986.

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• Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

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  Reading, Giving, Places To Go

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• With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

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  Age, Aging, Shameless

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• The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.

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  Critical Spirit, Meddling, Knows

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• Swindlers are notoriously gullible.

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  Gullible, Swindlers, Gullibility

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• After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

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  Mean, Acceptance, Silence

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• For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

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  Immaturity, Literature, Defects

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• Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

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  Office, Literature, Weak

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• Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

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  Enemy, Literature, Sometimes

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• In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

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  Games, Literature, Loser

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• Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

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  Want, Flattery, Insult

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