Literature Quotes - Page 10

• The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

  Mason Cooley

  Shade, Respectability

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• Self-reform is the only kind that works.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Reform, Kind

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• In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

  Mason Cooley

  Fees, Psychoanalysis, Seems

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• Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

  Mason Cooley

  Opportunity, Names, Answers

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• Hatred observes with more care than love does.

  Mason Cooley

  Hatred, Doe, Care

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• Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

  Mason Cooley

  Imagination

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• Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

  Mason Cooley

  Consciousness, Reprieve

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• Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Vices, Pleasure

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• The only peace is being out of earshot.

  Mason Cooley

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

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Mirrors, Faces

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• While there's life, there's fear.

  Mason Cooley

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• Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

  Mason Cooley

  Ill Will, Sloth, Unjust

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• To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

  Mason Cooley

  Successful, Littles, Being Successful

  "City Aphorisms: Tenth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1992.

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• To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

  Edwin Markham

  Sides, Things To Do, Oneself

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• Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Fall, Might, Dizzy

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• One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.

  Joseph Campbell

  News, Today, Spirit

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.1, Anchor

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• Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.

  John Dos Passos

  Renaissance, London, Currents

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• Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Grows, Has Beens

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Writing, Library

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• For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Games, Human Experience

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• Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

  Robert Benchley

  Spring, Writing, Soul

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• Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Learning, Advice

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• Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

  Karl Kraus

  Marriage, Society, Unions

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.152, Syracuse University Press

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• Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Solitude, Would Be

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• When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Beast, Behave

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