Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 9

• Rereading, we find a new book.

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  Book, Rereading, New Books

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• To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

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  Money

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

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  Shopping, Authenticity, Abundance

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• The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

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  Sorrow, Deceit, Contradiction

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• The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.

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  Inspiration, Delight, Irony

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• Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.

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  Law, Poverty, Wealth

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• Tolerance is a placid contempt.

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  Tolerance, Contempt, Placid

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• What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?

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  Stoicism, Behavior, Ifs

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• Methodology is applied ideology.

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  Methodology, Ideology

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• Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

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  Broken, Break Out, Reason

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• Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

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  Sight, Smell, Intuition

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• Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

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  Advice, Ears, Mouths

  "City Aphorisms, Second Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1985.

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• Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

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  Laughter, Alarms, Sound

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• Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.

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  Loss, Attachment, Bereavement

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• Since we hate the same people, we should be friends.

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  Hate, People, Should

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• Hatred makes me energetic, but confused.

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  Hate, Confused, Hatred

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• When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.

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  Friendship, Destiny, Cry

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• An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

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  Friendship, Old Friends, Lovers

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• Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

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  Tragedy, Sleepy, Tragic

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• To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

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  God, Humanity, Forget

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• God improvises. Man systematizes.

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  God, Men, Humanity

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• Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.

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  Hope, Despair, Cry

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• The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

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  Despair, Found, Modernism

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• The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

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  Money, Perfect, Pleasure

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• The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?

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  Eggs, Perfection, Want

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