Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 8

• Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist.

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  World

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• Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

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  Guarantees, Sincerity

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• Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.

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  Past, May, Way

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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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• The time I kill is killing me.

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  Time, Time Management, Killing

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• Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

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  Married, Rich, Pleasure

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• As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.

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  Rights, Want

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• Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

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  Children, Teaching, Character

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• Genius knows where the questions are hidden.

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  Genius, Knows

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• Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

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  Selfishness, Doe, Charity

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• Rereading, we find a new book.

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  Book, Rereading, New Books

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• If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

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  Literature, World, Might

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• Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

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  Seductive, Melancholy, Ecstasy

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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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• 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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• The prison is the state writ small.

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  Prison, States

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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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• A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

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  Time, Long, Silence

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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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• Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.

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  Sweet, Revenge, Revenge Is Sweet

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• Winning means outlasting everyone else.

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  Mean, Winning, Outlasting

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

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  People, May, Belief

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