Mason Cooley Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Romantic, Wedding

• Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

  Mason Cooley

  Disappointment, Reality, Names

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

• Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.

  Mason Cooley

  Reality, Way, Sometimes

• In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.

  Mason Cooley

  Winning, Reality, Stories

• The realism of failure, the romance of success.

  Mason Cooley

  Reality, Romance, Realism

• Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

  Mason Cooley

  Reality, Details, Guarantees

• The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Lying, Reality

• The real reality is always just around the corner.

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Corners, Around The Corner

• Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

  Mason Cooley

  Reality, Garden, White

• The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Facts, Reality

• Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

  Mason Cooley

  Reality, Paper, Proof

• Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

  Mason Cooley

  Home, Reality, Comfort

• When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

  Mason Cooley

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Reality

• The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.

  Mason Cooley

  Reality, Absurd, Fortresses

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