Mason Cooley Quotes
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If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.
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Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.
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Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.
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Anxiety and lust are evicting the older passions.
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Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.
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Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
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Wit: a whim followed by a wham.
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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
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A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.
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God has replaced sex as the unmentionable.
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Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.
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Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
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Most people find just being themselves not enough of a show.
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Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.
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The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right.
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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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By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.
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An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.
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I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.
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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
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I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.
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In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.
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Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.
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The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.
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Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.
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In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
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Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.
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Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.
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No one could be the way I remember my father.
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Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.
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