Mason Cooley Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

  Mason Cooley

  Mistake, Literature, Originality

• A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

  Mason Cooley

  Cat, People, Pet

• Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

  Mason Cooley

  Complaining, Literature, Complainers

• Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

  Mason Cooley

  Greed, Lust, Literature

  "City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1991.

• Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

  Mason Cooley

  Running, Dancing, Romance

• Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Compassion, Caregivers

• Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Sofas, Ideology

  "City Aphorisms: Third Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1986.

• Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

  Mason Cooley

  Mean, Literature

• Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Procrastination, Literature

• Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

  Mason Cooley

  Hate, Cat, Pet

• Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Creativity, Acting

• Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

  Mason Cooley

  Mirrors, Imagination, Desire

• Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

  Mason Cooley

  Blessing, Meals, Three

• Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

  Mason Cooley

  Change, Feel Better, Literature

• If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

  Mason Cooley

  Phones, Play Hard, Literature

• Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

  Mason Cooley

  Stories, Literature, Insult

• Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

  Mason Cooley

  New Year, Party, Literature

• No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

  Mason Cooley

  Kitchen, Literature, Chaos

• Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

  Mason Cooley

  History, Effort, Psychology

• As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

  Mason Cooley

  Struggle, Equality, Numbers

• Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

  Mason Cooley

  Artist, Literature, Temperament

• Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

  Mason Cooley

  Nice, Hobbies, Literature

• Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

  Mason Cooley

  Birthday, Lost Youth, Mourning

• The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

  Mason Cooley

  Laughter, Literature, Sometimes

  "City Aphorisms: Sixth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1989.

• Money: power at its most liquid.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Money Power, Liquid

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