Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

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  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.

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  Retirement, Days Off, Looks

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• Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

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  Struggle, Taste, Enjoyment

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• Money: power at its most liquid.

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  Literature, Money Power, Liquid

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• Even alone we go on justifying ourselves.

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  Goes On

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• Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

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  Lonely, People, Company

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• The beloved is the ultimate fetish.

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  Beloved, Fetish, Ultimate

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• The body has a mind of its own.

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  Mind, Body

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• The passion for money is never fickle.

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  Passion, Fickle

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• Self-reform is the only kind that works.

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  Self, Reform, Literature

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• Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

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  Literature, Consciousness, Reprieve

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• The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

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  Real, Mirrors, Literature

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• Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

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  Blood, Greedy, Thirsty

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• Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

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  Photography, Misrepresentation, Know How

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• Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

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  Courage, Bravery, Victory

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• Sometimes the given seems like something taken away.

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  Taken, Loss, Sometimes

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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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• English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

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  Language, Borrowed

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• Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

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  Doe, Limits, Language

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