Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 7

• Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

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  Want, Privilege, Victimization

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• Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

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  Money, Fame, Conquest

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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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• The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

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  Mind, Demand, Facts

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• Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

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  Complaining, Complaints, Pastime

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• Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

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  Modern, Paint, Depiction

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• The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.

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  Beginning Middle And End, Abandoned, Ends

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• Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

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  Stories, Literature, Insult

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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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• 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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• Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

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  Photography, Misrepresentation, Know How

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

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  Comedy, Surface, Profundity

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• The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

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  Life, Boredom, Resentment

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• We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.

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  Justice, Injustice

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• Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

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  Law, Common Sense, Giving

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• As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.

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  Philosophy, Dinner, Eating

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• An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

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  Men, Tea, Age

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• The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

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  Happiness, Ordinary, Routine

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• I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

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  Book, Literature, Make Me Happy

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• The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

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  Birthday, Journey, Hiking

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• After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.

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  Revenge, Rejection, Trying

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